Tokyo, Oct. 22, 2019: A meeting between Pope Francis and former prisoner Iwao Hakamada during the pontiff’s trip to Japan “would send a clear signal to Japanese society. The death penalty is wrong and the Pope is against it,” say some Catholic and civil society activists.The pontiff will be inContinue Reading
Vatican City, October 22, 2019: Pope Francis has urged the International Christian Maritime Association to “help the people of the sea to know Jesus Christ and to live according to His teachings.” International Christian Maritime Association is an ecumenical association of Christian non-profit organizations that has been working with seafarersContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Vatican City, Oct. 20, 2019: Cardinal Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay,participating in the Amazon Synod, currently taking place in the Vatican, says he is moved by the passion of the bishops of the Amazonia region for their poor and suffering people. Cardinal Gracias made the remark inContinue Reading
A Catholic bishop of Pakistan has expressed concern over the confrontation between Pakistan and India over the disputed region of Kashmir and wishes the leaders of both the nuclear-armed nations take on the path of dialogue to save humanity. Dialogue and peace “Atomic weapons will never be needed or usedContinue Reading
Nairoby, Oct.18, 2019: A Catholic priest who disappeared from his family home was found dead in a shallow grave in southeastern Kenya a week after he was reported missing. Police investigators and pathologists Oct. 16 exhumed the body of Father Michael Maingi Kyengo, 43. They said his body had beenContinue Reading
The BBC has revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019. This year 100 Women is asking: what would the future look like if it were driven by women? From climate change activist Greta Thunberg to trans woman Nisha Ayub who was putContinue Reading
Rome, October 15, 2019: Pope Francis set the world of football abuzz on October 13 by unexpectedly throwing his weight behind the New Orleans Saints, a football team. Except, the octogenarian pontiff didn’t mean to support the NFL team, but the new saints of the Catholic Church. “Today we giveContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct. 13, 2019: Pope Francis, the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Oct. 13 ‘canonized’ five new saints including Sister Mariam Thresia from Kerala. Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs V Muraleedharan, who is from the southern state of Kerala himself, represented India during the ceremony.Continue Reading
Palmerston North, October 9, 2019: Catholics of Palmerston North diocese in New Zealand have questioned the circumstances leading to the acceptance of the resignation of their Bishop Charles Drennan by Pope Francis. Pope Francis on October 5 accepted Bishop Drennan’s resignation after a young woman complained about his unacceptable behaviorContinue Reading
Eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s epic non-stop, solo flight from New York to Paris, the British aviators, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, made the first transatlantic flight in June 1919, from St John’s in Newfoundland to Ireland. It was a milestone in the history of aviation. Alcock and Brown wereContinue Reading
