A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia. Police say five people survived the crash but the rest of those on board died. The chartered aircraft, flying from Brazil via Bolivia, was carrying members ofContinue Reading
Beirut: Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, who led the worldwide Jesuit order for a quarter century from 1983 to 2008, and who broke with tradition by voluntarily resigning what had once been a lifetime job, died on Sunday in Beirut four days shy of his 88th birthday. An internal Jesuit emailContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul. Birmingham (UK) – A Mother Teresa scholar in Birmingham, UK, has taken on writer Kitty Wenham – a London-based activist who was raised Catholic – who made claims in a feminist site that ‘Mother Teresa was a hypocrite with no real interest in helping people – andContinue Reading
Three feet high, with blue and yellow flashing antennae and a head shaped like a stylish toaster, A Tie is among the first of an army of “intelligent nursing robots” that will be deployed across China to ease pressure on its heavily-burdened elderly care system. But at a care homeContinue Reading
Havana: Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90. Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearlyContinue Reading
Vatican City: Drug addiction is a contemporary form of slavery, Pope Francis lamented Thursday, emphasizing that a rehabilitation which restores victims’ joy and dignity is much needed. “Drugs are a wound in our society. A wound that traps many people in the networks. They are victims have lost their freedom toContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Friday expressed solidarity with women, saying that God wants them to be free from oppression and violence and to be esteemed. “So many women are overwhelmed with the burdens of life and the drama of violence! The Lord wants them to be free and theirContinue Reading
The founder of Corona beer has left £2m in his will to each resident of the small Spanish village in which he grew up. Antonino Fernández, who died aged 98 in August, left £169m to the 80 residents of the small village of Cerezales del Condado in north west Spain,Continue Reading
Uzbekistan: Uzbek authorities have released a Christian convert six years into his 10-year jail sentence. Tohar Haydarov, 33, was released on parole on 8 November after serving six years and 10 months of his prison term. A judge had ruled he was eligible for parole the previous day. Haydarov hasContinue Reading
Mosul: Thousands of displaced Iraqi Christians celebrated a “Return Festival” as the military advance against Islamic State (IS) in and around the city of Mosul raised their hopes of returning home after two years in exile. The festival in Erbil last Friday (18 Nov.) was organised by Life Agape, withContinue Reading
