By Matters India reporter Dhaka, August 2, 2019: Two cardinals from Myanmar and the Philippines met refugee families, relief agency personnel and government officials of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh during their weeklong visit to Bangladesh. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila, and Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishopContinue Reading
By Muktadir Rashid Dhaka, July 31, 2019: Senior Christian religious leaders in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and Caritas Internationalis called on Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and wanted to know what they could do for the Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar camps. Emerging from a closed-door meeting at the secretariat inContinue Reading
London, July 30, 2019: Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure in the British establishment, will seek to encourage Indian leaders to affirm and implement Article 25 of the Constitution that guarantees freedom of religion during his forthcoming 10-day visit to the country. Visiting at the invitationContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 30, 2019: Prostitution is a “human disease,” according to Pope Francis, writing in the preface of a book, evoking “a disgusting vice” which is reducing women into slavery. “All forms of prostitution are enslavement, criminal acts, disgusting vice that confuses making love with the relief of one’sContinue Reading
Abuja, July 26, 2019: A pregnant woman and a child were among four people killed in attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau State mid July. The attackers targeted the villages of Ancha and Tafigana in the Bassa Local Government area, as reported by news site Nasoweseeamonline. Margaret Wakili,Continue Reading
Rome, July 24, 2019: As the leader of the Catholic Church in the entire world, one would assume that Pope Francis receives a generous salary in compensation for his many duties. However, the truth is quite the opposite. In 2001 there were rumors that St. John Paul II made aContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 22, 2019: One of Pope Francis’s top aides delivered a personal letter from the pontiff to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, among other things expressing Francis’s “deep concern” for the humanitarian situation in Idlib, a rebel-controlled area in northwestern Syria that’s been the target of Russian-backed airstrikes sinceContinue Reading
July 22, 2019: Pope Francis has banned a former US bishop accused of sexual harassment and of misusing church money from publicly performing the liturgy, the Vatican News website has reported. The measure was among a series of sanctions the pope had issued against Michael Bransfield, the website reported, citingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Negombo, July 21, 2019: St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, a suburb of Sri Lanka’s Negombo town, was reopened on July 21, exactly three months after it was severely damaged in a suicide bombing. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, head of the Catholic Church in the island nation whoContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 29, 2019: Pope Francis has appointed Matteo Bruni as director of the Holy See Press Office. Alessandro Gisotti and Sergio Centofanti have been appointed deputy directors of the Editorial Directorate at the Dicastery for Communication. Pope Francis on July 18 appointed British-born Bruni is the new spokespersonContinue Reading
