Vatican City: Journalism must prize truth and reflection over sensationalism and clamor, Pope Francis told journalists on Saturday. “It is important that the criteria of judgement and information are offered patiently and methodically so that public opinion is able to understand and discern, and is not stunned and disoriented,” theContinue Reading
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Manila: Filipino Catholics attending the nine-day Simbang Gabi or dawn masses that start December 16 should offer their sacrifices not only for personal intentions but for the country as well. “We are at a crossroads. There are so many issues, policies that are being thought of… We just hope thatContinue Reading
A suicide bomber detonated inside Bethel Memorial Church on Zarghoon road in Baluchistan capitalContinue Reading
Canberra: Leaders of the Catholic church in Australia on Friday dismissed calls from a landmark inquiry into child sexual abuse that the Vatican should make celibacy for priests voluntary and end the secrecy of confession. Earlier on Friday, Australia’s Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse delivered itsContinue Reading
Yangon: At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine state that began in late August, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday. The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 andContinue Reading
After waiting more than two decades, churches in Egypt finally are allowed to rebuild their houses of worship, according to World Watch Monitor. In the southern rural part of the country, in an area known as the Minya governorate, the governor gave 21 churches the green light to rebuild and expand.Continue Reading
Poland’s new prime minister has called on the European Union to return to its “proper values” and traditional Christian roots. A Western-educated former banker who was sworn in on Dec 11, Mateusz Morawiecki said his dream was to “re-Christianise the EU” in an interview with a Catholic channel. Poland is a “great,Continue Reading
Munich: The controversy regarding Amoris laetitia has come to an end, according to German cardinal Walter Kasper. What is more, he has affirmed that the admission of remarried divorced persons to the sacraments in individual cases is, in his view, the only correct interpretation of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation. WritingContinue Reading
A would-be suicide attacker detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his body in the heart of Manhattan’s busiest subway corridor on Monday, sending thousands of terrified commuters fleeing the smoke-choked passageways, and bringing the heart of Midtown to a standstill as hundreds of police officers converged on Times Square andContinue Reading