AGAT, Aug.9, 2019: Walter Denton wanted to grow up to be just like Father Tony Apuron, until the night he says the parish priest raped him in a church rectory. The pastor sent the sobbing 13-year-old altar boy away with a warning: “If you say anything to anybody, no oneContinue Reading
Vatican City, August 8, 2019: Pope Francis has appointed Dominican Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney to the Congregation for Oriental Churches. The Vatican announced his appointment to the congregation on August 7, following on from previous Congregation member and former Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart. The congregation is responsible forContinue Reading
Aug. 6, 2019: The president of Turkey presided at the groundbreaking for a new church in the country, the first to be built in nearly 100 years. Turkey’s population is overwhelmingly Muslim, but the government is officially nonsectarian. The Syriac Orthodox of Mor Efrem will be constructed just outside Istanbul.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 2, 2019: Indonesia’s Medan in North Sumatra is all set to host the ninth edition of the triennial Congress of Asian Theologians (CATS), the largest pan-Asian theological summit. The summit that begins on August 5 will bring together around 120 Asian and AsianContinue Reading
The Vatican has allowed the bishops of Zimbabwe to open the sainthood cause of a British missionary murdered after he refused to abandon his ministry to people with Hansen’s disease during the country’s civil war. The cause for the beatification of John Bradburne, a lay member of the Order ofContinue Reading
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
