Washington: India has denied visa to members of a US commission on religious freedom who wanted to discuss and assess “deteriorating” religious freedom conditions in the country, the head of the independent body has said. “We are deeply disappointed by the Indian government’s denial, in effect, of these visas,” RobertContinue Reading
The Pontiff called the murders as diabolicalContinue Reading
Some 30,000 people participated in the Feb. 28 walk in northeast BrazilContinue Reading
A series of essays in the semiofficial Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a role that has been reserved almost exclusively to the all-male priesthood for nearly 800 years. “This topic is a delicate one, but I believe itContinue Reading
Rawalpindi — Marking the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti on Wednesday, a Pakistani diocese has opened a process of enquiry towards declaring the late politician a martyr. Bhatti, a Catholic and the only Christian in the Pakistani cabinet, worked as the federal minister for minorities and spokeContinue Reading
The invitation was given through a high level Pakistan delegation to RomeContinue Reading
The Australian Church made “enormous mistakes” in its handling of paedophilia, Cardinal George Pell has told the royal commission into child abuse. Speaking via video link from Rome, the cardinal said the Church had previously had a “predisposition not to believe” reports of abuse by priests. “The instinct was moreContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican newspaper on Monday lauded the film Spotlight, which took home this year’s Oscar for best picture, for giving voice to the pain of the victims of sexual abuse by the clergy. The film tells the story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a massive scandal ofContinue Reading
Geneva: One eight-year-old was repeatedly sold and raped, while another girl set herself on fire to make herself less attractive to her terrorist captors. These are only two of the more than 1,400 horror stories German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan has heard first-hand from Yazidi women and girls once enslavedContinue Reading
London: Minor Muslim girls in the UK as young as 11 are being forced to marry men living abroad via the internet notwithstanding a ban on forced marriage in the country. Imams in the UK and abroad have been conducting ceremonies using Skype — so girls can be married remotelyContinue Reading
