Paris, Mar. 19, 2019: Philippe Barbarin, the French Roman Catholic cardinal convicted of failing to report sexual abuse charges, said on Mar. 19 that Pope Francis had turned down his offer to resign but had suggested he stand aside “for a while”. Barbarin, who is appealing his guilty verdict, saidContinue Reading
London, March 19, 2019: Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former royal butler, revealed in his memoir that the late Princess of Wales told him that she found her mission in life in Calcutta in 1992. At the time, Princess Diana and Prince Charles had already separated. In the book “The WayContinue Reading
In Sri Lanka, the annual festival at St. Anthony’s Church in Katchatheevu island was attended by hundreds of Indian Catholic pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and nearby areas. The pilgrims on March 16 took bath and attended Mass conducted in both Tamil and Sinhala languages. The Tamil Mass was led byContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 16, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has expressed anguish and sadness at the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. At least 49 people were killed and 20 seriously injured on March 15 in a hate-filled terror attack targeting two mosques inContinue Reading
By Don Bosco Onyalla Nairobi, March 16, 2019: A Catholic priest and a nun along with four Kenyans working with Catholic Relief Services were among the 157 victims of the recent Ethiopian Airlines crash. The Nairobi-bound plane, Boeing 737, crashed on March 10 near Ethiopia’s town of Bishoftu some sixContinue Reading
Melbourne, March 13, 2019: Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be convicted of sex abuse to date, has been sentenced to six years in prison for the “callous” assault of two choirboys in the late 1990s. A former senior adviser to Pope Francis, Cardinal Pell showed noContinue Reading
Geneva, March 12, 2019: An environment expert employed by the World Council of Churches was among 157 people killed in the recent Ethiopian plane crash. Pastor Norman Tendis was on the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi that crashed on March 10 shortly after take-off. Pastor Tendis, aContinue Reading
Vatican City, March 1, 2019: Pope Francis looks set to start his seventh year as head of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, the same day a high-ranking Australian cardinal will be sentenced for pedophilia. Pope Francis was elected as leader on March 13, 2013. According to his calendar,Continue Reading
Lyon, March 8, 2019: France’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, has been given a six-month suspended sentence for his role in covering up the sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Barbarin was found guilty of failing to report allegations of assaults by a priest in the 1980s andContinue Reading
Islamabad, Mar. 8, 2019: Krishna Kumari Kohli, Pakistan’s first female senator from the Hindu Dalit community, on Friday chaired the session of the upper house of parliament on occasion of International Women’s Day. “Chairman Senate of Pakistan decided to make our colleague Krishna Kumari Kohli aka Kishoo Bai to ChairContinue Reading
