By Alvaro de Juana Paris:- Patrick Canac was baptized, but like so many others, drifted away from the Church over time. In recent months, however, the successful French businessman has had a change of heart, returning to the Catholic Church and even making a large donation for the construction ofContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis will wade into the religious and political minefield of Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims and the effects of their exodus to Bangladesh when he visits both countries next month. The Vatican on Tuesday released the itinerary for the Nov. 26-Dec. 2 trip, which has taken onContinue Reading
Brussel: SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, reaffirmed its commitment to truth in supporting Pope Francis’ theme for the 52nd World Communications Day. The Holy See’s Secretariat for Communication announced the theme for World Communications Day, set for May 13, 2018 as “’The truth will set you free’ (JnContinue Reading
By Stoyan Zaimov Christians pray for starving North Koreans during a prayer session in Seoul March 1, 2012. About 300 South Korean Christians also asked China not to send North Koreans detained in China back to the North, saying the North Koreans might be executed after their repatriation. An extensiveContinue Reading
London: A group of nuns is launching a soup restaurant in London — and plans to give away everything for free. The Daughters of Divine Charity, a Catholic order based in Norfolk, are swapping rural England for Shoreditch in Central London in order to launch the pop-up location, which has been named NUNdos. AccordingContinue Reading
Paris: More than 40 Catholic institutions are to announce the largest ever faith-based divestment from fossil fuels, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi on October 3. The sum involved has not been disclosed but the volume of divesting groups is four times higher than a previousContinue Reading
By Alvaro de Juana Rome: Three years ago, there were 73 nuns with the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena living in Kurdistan. Since the Islamic State captured the Plain of Nineveh in 2014, one-third of them have died. Sister Silvia is one of the survivors. Surrounded by devastation,Continue Reading
Pope Francis has expressed his “spiritual closeness” to victims of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, which left more than fifty people dead, and hundreds more wounded. In the telegram addressed to the Bishop Joseph Anthony Pepe of Las Vegas, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said PopeContinue Reading
A young Pakistani Christian woman who travelled to Australia for surgery, after she was seriously injured in a twin suicide bombing at her church in Peshawar in 2013, says that three years on “countries in the West still fail to recognise the persecution of Christians in Pakistan”. Kashmala Munawar wasContinue Reading
Witnesses heard numerous gunshots at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel Continue Reading
