Two in five North Koreans are undernourished and more than 70% of the population relies on food aid, the United Nations says. In a new report, it said most North Koreans also lacked access to basic healthcare or sanitation. Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the two main causes of death forContinue Reading
London: Four people were killed and at least 20 injured in London on Wednesday after a car ploughed into pedestrians and an attacker stabbed a policeman close to the British parliament in what police called a “marauding terrorist attack”. The dead included the assailant and the policeman he stabbed, whileContinue Reading
App-based service allows female passengers to travel around Karachi without fear of harassment from male driversContinue Reading
Parliament in lockdown after incidentContinue Reading
Philip Pullella Rome: Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October if the security situation in the country stricken by civil war and famine does not worsen, a bishop from the country said on Tuesday. The pope has said several times that he wants to go to the country toContinue Reading
Manila: Remember what Jesus’ cross stands for, and don’t misuse the Bible to justify the death penalty, the Philippines’ Catholic bishops have said. “To the people who use the Bible to defend the death penalty, need we point out how many other crimes against humanity have been justified, using theContinue Reading
Aakash Bakaya Kuwait: A citizen, carrying a concealed knife, disrupted mass at the Catholic Church in Kuwait City Sunday evening. The man was later arrested by police. No one was hurt in the incident. Interior Ministry officials confirmed that a Kuwaiti man was taken by police after causing a disturbanceContinue Reading
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the Catholic church’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days of violence. The “sins and failings of the church and its members” had “disfigured the face” of Catholicism, he said. Speaking after meeting the RwandanContinue Reading
Two men tried to rape and rob the martial arts championContinue Reading
Leann Burke Jasper — Forty-two years after working as a missionary in central India, Father John Boeglin of Holy Family Catholic Church returned to the country, this time as a sightseer. “This was not a tourist trip,” Boeglin said. “This was a backroads trip.” Boeglin presented a talk on hisContinue Reading