Police invaded Catholic churches and fired tear gas during Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday (December 31) as protests against the rule of President Joseph Kabila intensified. One witness at St. Michael’s Church in central Kinshasa told AFP that officers broke up the Mass and arrested altar boys,Continue Reading
Pope Francis is having cards printed and distributed showing a 1945 photo of victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki along with the words the fruit of war.” The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while he waits for his turn at the crematory. ItContinue Reading
Yangon: The Christian communities in Myanmar, Catholic and Protestant, have publicly celebrated Christmas in the streets of Yangon, for the first time in 50 years. In the past, Christmas was strictly confined within the walls of churches, several liturgies, feasts, processions, took place in the city, especially from 23 toContinue Reading
Pope Francis has recommended jettisoning life’s “useless baggage” in 2018, including what he called “empty chatter” and banal consumerism, and focusing instead on building a peaceful and welcoming world, particularly for refugees and migrants. Francis offered his reflections on paring down non-essentials as he celebrated New Year’s Day Mass MondayContinue Reading
Bangladesh wants to send up to 100,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar in the first batch of repatriations of Muslim refugees who fled ethnic violence this year, officials said today.Continue Reading
Vatican City: Lamenting “the winds of war” blowing around the world, Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on December 25 called for a two-state solution to find peace in the Middle East and prayed that confrontation can be overcome on the Korean Peninsula. The pope took particular aim atContinue Reading
Abu Dhabi: There is no snow fall yet in the UAE. But the breezy, chilly weather make it quite apt for Christmas celebrations in the country. Homes, shops, malls are decorated with Christmas trees, cribs, bells, lights, and glitter. And Christian expats in the UAE are in high spirits toContinue Reading
Richet(Nepal), Dec 23 (AFP) More than two years after an earthquake flattened the Nepali village of Richet, most residents are still living in makeshift shelters. Only the church has been rebuilt — paid for by Christian missionaries whose influence in the mainly Hindu country is growing. Despite strict laws thatContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has once again used a Christmas greeting to dress down Vatican colleagues, denouncing the “cancer” of cliques and how bureaucrats can become “corrupted” by ambition and vanity. “Reforming Rome is like cleaning the Egyptian sphinxes with a toothbrush,” Francis told cardinals, bishops and priests who workContinue Reading
The Philippine president has declared a Christmas truce with communist guerrillas and urged them to reciprocate the goodwill gesture after recently scrapping peace talks with the insurgents and declaring them terrorists. President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision, made public by his spokesman Harry Roque Jr. on Wednesday, reflects the contrasting moves theContinue Reading
