Rome: Ever since his election as spiritual head of the Roman Catholic church in 2013, Pope Francis has always said he wants a church for the poor. But two controversial new books describe a Vatican awash with cash that is woefully mismanaged, where senior officials pour church funds into theirContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican has arrested a Spanish prelate and social media expert for allegedly stealing and leaking classified documents in the second such scandal to hit the secretive institution in three years. Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, 54, who served on a special commission set up by Pope FrancisContinue Reading
“Top prize goes to Lil’ Pope.”Continue Reading
Search officials in Sinai had reported hearing voices coming from section of aircraft carrying 224 from Sharm el-SheikhContinue Reading
Rome: Inmates at Italy’s largest women’s prison gathered in the jail yard Thursday to shake their hips in a flashmob dance — in honour of Pope Francis. The women performed a zumba-style routine of spins, funky steps and arm swings to “Pope is Pop”, a song written about the pontiffContinue Reading
Immediately after the reports emerged, Abdul Aziz denied issuing the fatwa and said, “attempts by enemies to distract society from their main cause at the moment, which is standing together behind our wise leadership against attempts to distort the the world’s Muslims.” Sheikh Abdul Aziz, a Saudi Arabian grand muftiContinue Reading
Dhaka: A Bangladesh publisher who worked with atheist writers was hacked to death in the capital Dhaka today, just hours after two secular bloggers and another publisher were attacked in a separate incident. Faisal Arefin Dipan was murdered at his office in central Dhaka, Imran Sarker, who heads a secularContinue Reading
Salesians are using rap to share their faith with young peopleContinue Reading
Beijing: China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Thursday, with the official Xinhua news agency saying that all couples would be allowed two children. It cited a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party after a four-day meeting in Beijing to chart the course of theContinue Reading
Kathmandu: Communist leader Bidhya Devi Bhandari was on Thursday elected as Nepal’s first woman President by the parliament, weeks after it adopted a new landmark Constitution that declared the country a secular state. 54-year-old Bidhya, the Vice-president of CPN-UML and widow of late general secretary of the party Madan Bhandari,Continue Reading
