Rome, Nov 1 2019: Britain has returned an Argentine statue of the Madonna captured during the Falklands conflict at an emotional ceremony in St Peter’s Square presided over by Pope Francis. Bishop Paul Mason, Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic military chaplain, handed over the 14-inch statue of Our Lady ofContinue Reading
Islamabad, October 31, 2019: At least 73 people were killed and dozens injured on October 31 after cooking gas cylinders exploded on a train packed with religious pilgrims in Pakistan, authorities said. Television footage showed flames pouring out of three carriages as people could be heard crying in the incident,Continue Reading
By Chellie Ison Ohio, October 31, 2019: When Keith Ball left for India early October, his family in the United States never imagined that they wouldn’t see him again. Ball, minister for the Delaware Church of Christ in Ohio, and a college friend, Steve McIntire, traveled to Bidar, a townContinue Reading
Colombo, Oct. 30, 2019: The Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, a historic Catholic Church in Sri Lanka’s Mannar district, has been declared a Sacred Area. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena presented the ‘Sannas Pathraya’ declaring the Our Lady of Madhu Church as a sacred area to Bishop Fidelis LionelContinue Reading
Manila, Oct. 30, 2019: The social action arm of the Archdiocese of Manila launched the appeal October 29, on the day a strong tremor hit Cotabato. “We are knocking to your generous hearts to help our brothers and sisters in Cotabato,” Father Anton Pascual, Caritas Manila executive director, said inContinue Reading
Bangkok, Oct. 30, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Thailand (CBCT) has announced that the welcoming ceremony for Pope Francis, who is scheduled to visit Thailand from November 19 to 23, will be arranged in a simple and dignified manner. On October 28, the CBCT Deputy Secretary-General, Mercier Vissanu Thanya–Anan,Continue Reading
Rome, Oct. 29, 2019: Representatives from the Catholic and Orthodox churches and the Muslim and Jewish faiths signed a joint declaration at the Vatican reaffirming each religion’s clear opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. They also encouraged promoting palliative care so that dying patients could receive the best, most comprehensiveContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct. 29. 2019: Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn’t so secret after all. Francis on Monday officially changed the name of the Holy See archive to remove what he said were the “negative” connotations of having “secret” in its name. From now on, theContinue Reading
By Matt Hadro Washington D.C., Oct 28, 2019: A South Carolina Catholic priest has denied Holy Communion to Joe Biden on October 27, because of the US presidential candidate’s support for legal abortion. Father Robert Morey, pastor of St. Anthony Catholic Church in the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, deniedContinue Reading
John McCarthy, Q.C. Modern slavery now entraps an estimated 40 million people around the world, 10 million of them children. Never before have so many been exploited through forced labor, child labor or human trafficking. In the United States, at least 400,000 people are enslaved, according to the latest figuresContinue Reading
