Republic of Ireland: Religious orders have been urged to offer the state vacant or disused priests’ homes, convents and buildings to ease the housing and homeless crisis. Housing, Planning and Local Government Minister Simon Coveney issued the plea after revealing three properties have been handed over in Cork, Kerry andContinue Reading
Vatican City: Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Buddhist religious leaders applauded the “Spirit of Assisi” in interreligious meetings launched by Pope St. John Paul II thirty years ago in the Italian hill town. At the conclusion of a four day peace summit of interfaith leaders in Assisi, representatives who addressed theContinue Reading
Mexico City: One day after they were kidnapped from their parish, Mexican priests Alejo Nabor Jiménez Juárez and José Alfredo Suárez de la Cruz were found murdered in a field. The Mexican Bishops Conference confirmed the priests’ deaths and extended their condolences and prayers to the Diocese of Papantla, Mexico,Continue Reading
Abuja: Two suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeast Nigeria have left up to 14 people dead and three soldiers wounded, the army and local residents said on Monday. On Monday afternoon, six people were killed in an ambush of a commercial convoy escorted by the military in the Sanda districtContinue Reading
New Delhi: Three months after President Pranab Mukherjee gifted a statue of Mahatma Gandhi to the University of Ghana, a group of professors and students have started a petition to bring it down. The opposition centres around their belief that Gandhi was “inherently racist” for his depiction of native blackContinue Reading
Charmian Carr, who played Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 73. The actor’s spokesman said she died on Saturday in Los Angeles, of complications from a rare form of dementia. Carr was best known for her role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein’sContinue Reading
Vatican City: Nuncios must be missionaries of the Gospel in every corner of the world, “going out” physically, culturally and through prayer and Adoration. This was underlined this morning by Pope Francis celebrating Mass in Casa Santa Marta with the papal representatives from around the world, on the occasion ofContinue Reading
A fire has ruined the famous church of San Sebastian in the Peruvian colonial city of Cuzco. Residents watched in despair as the blaze burned the gilded altar and valuable paintings inside the 16th-century church. Authorities don’t know what sparked Friday’s fire in the 17th-century church. Video footage from TVContinue Reading
As Europe’s leaders (minus the UK) meet in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, the voice of the Eastern bloc* leaders is being heard more, even if it’s not always comfortable listening for Brussels’ Eurocrats. This week, Hungary, which has during the past year come under pressure for its handling of Europe’sContinue Reading
Over 100 parliamentarians from 60 countries met this week in Berlin for a series of workshops and seminars under the title, “An Embattled Right: Protecting and Promoting Freedom of Religion of Belief”. The second conference of this size after last year’s meeting in New York, it was organised by theContinue Reading
