Police officer ‘stabbed at UK Parliament’
Parliament in lockdown after incidentContinue Reading
Parliament in lockdown after incidentContinue Reading
Philip Pullella Rome: Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October if the security situation in the country stricken by civil war and famine does not worsen, a bishop from the country said on Tuesday. The pope has said several times that he wants to go to the country toContinue Reading
Manila: Remember what Jesus’ cross stands for, and don’t misuse the Bible to justify the death penalty, the Philippines’ Catholic bishops have said. “To the people who use the Bible to defend the death penalty, need we point out how many other crimes against humanity have been justified, using theContinue Reading
Aakash Bakaya Kuwait: A citizen, carrying a concealed knife, disrupted mass at the Catholic Church in Kuwait City Sunday evening. The man was later arrested by police. No one was hurt in the incident. Interior Ministry officials confirmed that a Kuwaiti man was taken by police after causing a disturbanceContinue Reading
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the Catholic church’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days of violence. The “sins and failings of the church and its members” had “disfigured the face” of Catholicism, he said. Speaking after meeting the RwandanContinue Reading
Two men tried to rape and rob the martial arts championContinue Reading
Leann Burke Jasper — Forty-two years after working as a missionary in central India, Father John Boeglin of Holy Family Catholic Church returned to the country, this time as a sightseer. “This was not a tourist trip,” Boeglin said. “This was a backroads trip.” Boeglin presented a talk on hisContinue Reading
Francis called for a solution that respects the rights of all, “especially families.”Continue Reading
Moscow: A trial for the blogger who is accused of inciting religious hatred for playing “Pokemon Go” in a church has begun in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Ruslan Sokolovsky has been in pre-trial detention since October when a court reversed his house arrest. Investigators have charged the 22-year-old videoContinue Reading
Bangkok: The Thai government is planning to cancel bail for all male asylum seekers in Bangkok.The move would require them to return to detention centres straight away. This would include many of the estimated 11,500 Pakistani Christians who complained in 2016 that UNHCR officials in Thailand were not taking theirContinue Reading
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