Singapore : Singapore’s Malay-Muslim community leaders have called for stricter norms for registration of religious teachers amid growing concerns over radicalisation in the country, media reports said. The leaders want all Asatizah (Islamic preachers) to be registered with the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS), started in 2005 to help Muslims toContinue Reading
Vatican: Pope Francis has named Cardinal Vinko Pulić, the Archbishop of Sarajevo, as his special envoy to a celebration taking place in Skopje, Macedonia, on 11 September 2016, at the conclusion of a special day of thanksgiving for the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa, whose birthContinue Reading
Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from a partially destroyed building in the aftermath of a devastating air strike in Aleppo. The image of the stunned and weary-looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance, covered in dust and with blood onContinue Reading
Brazil will lose about a billion dollars in revenue thanks to a law that turns the Olympics into a tax havenContinue Reading
Rome: In late August the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See will launch an online exhibit documenting the deep ties Blessed Teresa of Kolkata had with the United States. “She had an impact on Americans — quite a profound impact,” said Ken Hackett, the U.S. ambassador, who knew and workedContinue Reading
Letnica: The thousands of pilgrims who flocked to the bright white Church of the Black Madonna this year were hoping to receive the gift of grace that one of its most famous parishioners once experienced. A formerly thriving Croat village reduced to only 300 people since the Yugoslav Wars ofContinue Reading
Nigerian Christians displaced by Boko Haram are beginning to return home. They are being encouraged by the government, which has won back territory from the insurgents but which is also struggling to provide enough aid. World Watch Monitor received a first-hand account from church worker Isaac* describing day-to-day living nowContinue Reading
Sister Teresa Marcazzan, who belongs to the religious congregation of the Daughters of St. Paul (Paulines) has said that their founder Blessed James Alberione used to say, “If people do not come to Church, the Church must go where people are.” Sr. Marcazzan was speaking to Vatican Radio’s English AfricaContinue Reading
The letter was scribbled on a piece of paper by the Albanian-born nun and presented to former Gilroy teacher Father Paul Roberts in India Continue Reading
Party for Freedom movement, walked into Gosford Anglican Church and played Quranic verses through a bullhornContinue Reading
