Dhaka: With no priest to minister and no faithful to pray, an Armenian church in Bangladesh has one last parishioner: a Hindu caretaker doing his “sacred duty” to preserve a relic of the city’s former commercial elite. Shankar Ghosh makes the sign of the cross before opening the entrance ofContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis on June 22 appointed 12 new members of the Vatican’s highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, including Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark. American Cardinal James Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, and Bishop Mark Bartchak of the DioceseContinue Reading
Geneva: Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have urged the Vatican to do more to stop and prevent violence and sexual abuse against children, citing “persistent allegations of obstruction and lack of cooperation” from the Catholic Church, the UN human rights office said. The four experts, inContinue Reading
Washington: US President Joe Biden said that signing legislation into law establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day — a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — will go down as “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency. “I have to sayContinue Reading
Cúcuta: A car bomb exploded June 16 at the military base in Cúcuta, injuring 36 people. The Diocese for the Military of Colombia said on social media that he intact image serves to “maintain the faith among the soldiers,” and that there’s a feeling of “a miracle, of life andContinue Reading
Krakow, Poland: A thief on June 18 returned the relics of a 19th-century Polish saint who inspired St. John Paul II and apologized for taking them. St. Joseph’s Church in the Podgórze district of Kraków, southern Poland, announced on its Facebook page June 18 that the relics of St. AlbertContinue Reading
Kathmandu: Floods and landslides have wreaked havoc in Nepal following the incessant rains on Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving scores dead and missing. More than 50 people are missing in a massive flood in Sindhupalchowk district which is located some 70 kilometers north from Capital, Kathmandu that has caused a hugeContinue Reading
Mandalay: The Myanmar military have arrested and released six Catholic priests and a lay Catholic in the village of Chan Thar, in the Archdiocese of Mandalay, 700 km north of Yangon. According to Father Dominic Jyo Du, vicar general of the archdiocese, on the night between 12 and 13 JuneContinue Reading
Rome: The Vatican has warned conservative American bishops to hit the brakes on their push to deny communion to politicians supportive of abortion rights — including President Biden, a faithful churchgoer and the first Roman Catholic to occupy the Oval Office in 60 years. But despite the remarkably public stopContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Yangon: In the wake of recent attacks on four Churches and the on-coming of monsoon, 13 Catholic Bishops along with president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon appealed for peace and reconciliation on humanitarian grounds saying, “We are not politicians, weContinue Reading