Bishop’s acceptance: Pope responds personally to Nigerian priests
2017-07-25
The Ahiara diocese has been in disarray since December 2012Continue Reading
Church’s fund benefit poor in the Philippines
2017-07-25
Santosh Digal Manila, The Philippines: “Pondo ng Pinoy’ (PnP or funds of Filipinos) is helping the poor for last 13 years addressing the poverty. PnP is small, simple but sustained acts of love everyday in everyone for the sake of the poor, by the poor. It has gathered over 403,800Continue Reading
Revive family values to check trafficking: International conference
2017-07-24
By Santosh Digal Manila: Two thirds of nearly 45 million human trafficking victims worldwide are in Asia, an international conference in the Philippines was told. Millions continue to be forced into bonded labor, commercial sex trafficking and child soldiering and the worst vulnerable are women and children, according to theContinue Reading
Philippines to hold fourth seminar on new evangelization
2017-07-24
By Santosh Digal Manila: The Fourth Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE 4) will held at the University of Santo Thomas, July 28 -30 on with the thme “of ONE heart & soul” – ‘Those who believed were of one heart and soul’ (Acts 4:32). The PCNE 4 is aContinue Reading
Asian church women strategise ecumenical advocacy action against violence
2017-07-24
By Matters India Reporter Twenty-four church women from the Christian Conference of Asia’s (CCA) network, ‘Ecumenical Women’s Action Against Violence (EWAAV)’ met in Bangkok, Thailand from 16 to 20 July 2017 at an Asia regional consultation to work out strategies for ecumenical advocacy action to combat violence against women. TheContinue Reading
Church leaders in China remain open to dialogue with Vatican
2017-07-20
Fuzhou, China: As the Catholic Church in China journeys toward a normalized relationship with the Holy See, one priest in dialogue with Chinese bishops has seen vast improvement in openness and dialogue on the part of leaders, both in the patriotic and underground Churches. “That’s one very significant point, aContinue Reading
Facebook blocks conservative Catholic pages, siting ‘malfunction’
2017-07-20
In an inexplicable move, during the past 48 hours Facebook has blocked or removed more than two dozen pages belonging to conservative Catholic organizations and individuals. As of this writing, most if not all of the pages have been restored, with Facebook citing a “malfunction in the system” as anContinue Reading
Congo bishops plea for abducted priests
2017-07-19
Gunmen have abducted two Catholic priests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting the country’s bishops to plead that the captives not be harmed. “Priests are men of God who devote their lives to the good of the population without a political agenda. To hurt them is to harm theContinue Reading
First Vatican trial under laws against financial crime opens
2017-07-18
Rome: A Vatican criminal trial against two former members of a foundation overseeing the Vatican’s Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital is set to start Tuesday, on charges of illicitly using foundation funds to help finance the remodeling of the apartment of Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, former Secretary of State under EmeritusContinue Reading
Venezuela opposition calls strike, Trump threatens ‘actions’
2017-07-18
Caracas: Venezuela’s opposition called Monday for a 24-hour nationwide strike to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to drop plans to rewrite the constitution while the United States threatened “strong and swift economic actions” against his socialist administration if it ignores the will of voters in a referendum. President Donald Trump joinedContinue Reading