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
Maryland: Issac Makovo’s smile grows and his eyes twinkle when he talks about his hometown of Mombasa, Kenya. Father Issac is in his third year of ministry in a Catholic Church located in the small community of Hickory, Maryland. Father Issac was recruited by a Kenyan vocation director who wasContinue Reading
David Cameron has said he plans to stage a quick Commons vote on extending airstrikes in Syria next week, saying he will make an oral statement to MPs this Thursday and then ask MPs to consider his proposals over the weekend before going to a full debate and vote. TheContinue Reading
Dhaka : Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders who had been convicted of committing war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, a senior jail official said Sunday, despite concerns raised by the United States and human rights groups that the legal proceedings that led to the deathContinue Reading
Cristina Scuccia wowed judges and audiences last year with her soulful renditions of pop classicsContinue Reading
Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh said Friday that they had arrested a local Islamist leader after an attack on an Italian missionary for which the Islamic State has asserted responsibility. It was the third attack on a foreigner in Bangladesh since September to have been claimed by the terrorist organization. InContinue Reading
Roman Catholics are rapidly increasing in larger cities across China, but efforts to train more priests have been held back by the lack of applicants for seminaries, according to the Shanghai-based China Daily newspaper. Zou Yunlong, a 32-year-old student at the National Seminary of the Catholic Church in Beijing, toldContinue Reading
Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital, Bamako, to try to free hostages taken after it was stormed by gunmen. The hotel says 138 people remain inside. The gunmen stormed it shooting and shouting “God is great!” in Arabic, eyewitnesses say. Malian officials said 30Continue Reading
Dhaka: The Islamic State group on Thursday claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding an Italian priest in Bangladesh this week, the latest in a spate of recent attacks on foreigners claimed by the jihadist network. Piero Parolari, a priest and doctor who worked at the Suihari Catholic Mission in theContinue Reading
Father Parolari Piero, 64 of PIME missions was shot by assailants in northern Bangladesh on Nov 18, when he was on his way to the hospital where he was serving as a doctor. The three assailants were on a motorbike when they attacked Fr. Parolari in the town of DinajpurContinue Reading
