By Salvatore Cernuzio Just under 200 cardinals, out of the College’s 226, are participating August 29-30 in closed-door meetings convened by Pope Francis to reflect on the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium, the document reflecting the Pope’s reform of the Roman Curia. The event will most likely mark the Pope’s largestContinue Reading
By Jonah McKeown Denver, Aug 24, 2022: Four Catholic nuns who were kidnapped in Nigeria have been released, their religious congregation announced August 23. Sisters Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu, and Benita Agu were on their way to Mass Aug. 21 when they were kidnapped in Nigeria’s Imo state,Continue Reading
Bishop Rolando Álvarez is under house arrest in Nicaragua’s capital Managua after being detained by police August 19 in a pre-dawn raid. Bishop Álvarez had been confined to his residence for two weeks along with five priests, a seminarian, and a cameraman of a religious television channel. The priests andContinue Reading
Andrea Gagliarducci The new round of promotions and demotions in the Vatican is the consequence of two decisions recently taken by Pope Francis: Firstly, the publication of the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, which regulates the functions and tasks of the Roman Curia. And secondly, the publication of Traditionis Custodes. ThisContinue Reading
Abia, Aug 16, 2022: A priest and a seminarian kidnapped in Abia State, southeast Nigeria, were released unhurt August 15. Spiritan Father Chinedu Nwadike, who is deputy registrar at the Spiritan University Nneochi, and the seminarian were abducted August 12 at gunpoint shortly after driving out of the university gatesContinue Reading
By Donna Birrell London, Aug 16, 2022: The Coptic Archbishop of London has urged Christians to pray for the victims of a church fire in Egypt. At least 41 people died in the blaze at the Coptic Abu Sefein church in Giza August 14 morning. Eighteen children, aged between threeContinue Reading
Rome, Aug 14, 2022: Pope Francis has met a group of transsexuals in the Vatican, the fourth such encounter in 2022, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reports. “The Pope’s attention to people who live this fragility with great suffering is opening up unimaginable hopes,” said Sister Geneviève Jeanningros and FatherContinue Reading
By Benedict Mayaki, SJ A delegation of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has paid a visit to Ukraine as the Russian invasion, which has devastated several cities and caused a humanitarian crisis, enters its sixth month. A WCC statement said that the delegation, led by the acting general secretary,Continue Reading
By Rebecca Tinsley Khartoum, Aug 11, 2022: A court in Sudan has sentenced a 20-year-old woman to be stoned to death for alleged adultery. The judgment comes as violence toward girls and women soars in the wake of last year’s military coup. Civil society and human rights groups in SudanContinue Reading
Rome, August 9, 2022: Cardinal Jozef Tomko has died in Rome at the age of 98. At the time of his death, the Slovakian-born cardinal was the world’s oldest living member of the College of Cardinals. Tomko died at 5:00 a.m. Aug. 8 in his apartment, where he was underContinue Reading