Pope Francis gets another honor
2015-12-06
PETA has named Pope Francis as the Person of the YearContinue Reading
World leaders must listen to Pope Francis on climate change
2015-12-03
The climate change conference that kicked off this week in Paris has been called the world’s “last, best hope” for an international agreement to combat climate change. Though past conferences have largely been failures, there’s a new player in town this year who could change everything: Pope Francis. On MondayContinue Reading
Pope stresses Christian-Muslim brotherhood
2015-12-01
Bangui: Pope Francis on Monday concluded his three-nation Africa tour asserting that Christians and Muslims were brothers and urging them to reject hatred and violence. “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters,” the Pope said in an address at a mosque in a flashpoint Muslim neighborhood of the Central AfricanContinue Reading
The ‘Vatican Village’: Where women divorced to become nuns
2015-12-01
When Pope Francis arrived in Kenya for his three day visit on November 26, a village in Western Kenya had something in common with the Pontiff. The head of the Catholic Church came from Vatican. And the village in Mawego Kobuya village in Karachuonyo, Homa Bay County…is also called ‘Vatican.’ Here, ChristiansContinue Reading
Asia’s Aids epidemic needs urgent action to prevent even more deaths
2015-11-30
More than half of the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents live in the Asia-Pacific region and governments need to protect themContinue Reading
Court declares North Ireland abortion law against human rights
2015-11-30
London: Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion legislation is in breach of human rights law, the Belfast High Court found today in a judgement hailed as “historic”. The case was taken by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in a bid to allow women and girls to access abortion in cases ofContinue Reading
Shall I sing for you? How Europe’s oldest woman joined the 116 club
2015-11-30
Rome: Emma Morano, Europe’s oldest person and the second oldest in the world, marked her 116th birthday by offering to sing her favourite song for visiting well-wishers, Italian media reported today. Morano, one of only two women alive certified to have been born in the 19th Century, reached the milestoneContinue Reading
Pope ‘more afraid of mosquitoes than people’
2015-11-26
Nairobi: Pope Francis claims he fears mosquitoes more than people and laughs off security fears surrounding his trip to three African countries in the wake of recent terror attacks in France and Mali. “To tell you the truth, the only thing I’m concerned about is the mosquitoes. Did you bringContinue Reading
Swiss region to fine Burqa wearers
2015-11-26
Giorgio Ghiringhelli, who drew up the proposal, said the result would send a message to “Islamist fundamentalists,” who he claimed were in Ticino and across SwitzerlandContinue Reading
Pope Francis in Kenya at start of African tour
2015-11-25
Pope Francis has arrived in Kenya for a three-nation African tour – his first to the continent as pontiff. President Uhuru Kenyatta and ululating crowds welcomed him at the airport in the capital, Nairobi. An atheist group says it will challenge in court a government decision to declare Thursday aContinue Reading