Christians are being urged to pray for people in Afghanistan as persecution is likely to rise due to the Taliban takeover. On Aug. 16, as the Taliban confirmed it had 90 per cent of government buildings under its control in Kabul, thousands gathered at the city’s international airport in aContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has expressed his concern over the situation in Afghanistan and people to unite in praying to “the God of peace so that the clamor of weapons might cease and solutions can be found at the table of dialogue.” After leading the recitation of the Angelus onContinue Reading
New Delhi: The United Nations Postal administration has decided to issue a commemorative stamp honoring Saint Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was born in 1910 and died in 1997. According to the UN Postal Administration, the $1.80 Mother Teresa’s stamp is intended to be used from the U.N. post office atContinue Reading
Rome: A Christian couple who spent seven years on death row in Pakistan on false blasphemy charges has been granted asylum in a European country. According to human rights organization ADF International, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel arrived in Europe this week after their death sentence was overturned by theContinue Reading
Rome: While pandemic restrictions will prevent Catholics in the Philippines from traveling to the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest next month, the country’s bishops have organized their own online celebration of the Eucharist. The Philippines bishops had intended to send a delegation of 500 Catholics to the September 5-12Continue Reading
Dublin: A report on a survey of 214 religious education teachers in Ireland is raising alarm that students who practice a religion, particularly Catholicism, are being bullied for their beliefs. In Ireland, religious education is a compulsory subject for all pupils. The survey studied teachers in post-primary schools, which areContinue Reading
Rome: An envelope containing three bullets addressed to Pope Francis was intercepted in Milan late on Aug. 8, according to Italian media reports. The piece of mail, which had no return address but carried a French stamp, was addressed to “The Pope, Vatican City, St. Peter’s Square in Rome,” theContinue Reading
Jerusalem: Archaeologists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority believe they have found remnants of an earthquake that hit Jerusalem, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Judah 2,800 years ago. The earthquake is mentioned in the books of Zechariah and Amos. Zechariah 14:5 reads: “You will flee as you fled fromContinue Reading
Dhaka: The police have arrested 10 people in connection with a case of vandalism of four temples, several idols, six shops and some houses of Hindu people in Shiali village of Rupsha Upazila in southern Khulna, a senior police official confirmed on Aug. 8. The incident took place on Aug.Continue Reading
A priest who spent two years in captivity with a jihadist group in the Sahel region revealed how he “felt the silence of God” during his two-year ordeal which saw him dragged across Africa. Father Pierluigi Maccalli from the Society of African Missions (SMA), who was kidnapped in Niger, nearContinue Reading