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
Matters India Reporter Kathmandu, 28 October 2019 — A group 13 young people from various parts of Nepal are undergoing communications workshop christened CommLab, an annual feature of World Catholic Communications body called Signis, in Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu. Last year, a similar programme was held at Don Bosco CommunicationsContinue Reading
Manila, October 27, 2019: The tallest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world is about to be ready in the Philippines. Almost 100 meters (315 feet) high, the statue is expected to be ready in 2021, in time for the 500th anniversary of Christianity’s arrival in the Philippines TheContinue Reading
LEICESTER, United Kingdom, Oct. 25, 2019: Although often happening under the radar of the world media, a new report says persecution against Christians is getting worse in many parts of Asia, calling it a “regional hot spot.” The 2019 Persecuted and Forgotten? report from Aid to the Church in NeedContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Birmingham, Oct. 25, 2019: In a bold new attempt, well known Mother Teresa scholar in the English speaking world is coming out with his 4th ‘controversial’ book on the Nobel laureate entitled ‘Mother Teresa: The Saint and Her Nation’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). His earlier works include MotherContinue Reading
Rome, Italy, Oct 24, 2019: As the pastor of a parish in which many families lost a mother, father, or child in a bombing on Easter Sunday, Fr. Jude Raj Fernando has seen how healing from loss can be a long, difficult journey of faith. Fr. Fernando is the rectorContinue Reading
