Washington: US President Joe Biden said that signing legislation into law establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day — a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — will go down as “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency. “I have to sayContinue Reading
Cúcuta: A car bomb exploded June 16 at the military base in Cúcuta, injuring 36 people. The Diocese for the Military of Colombia said on social media that he intact image serves to “maintain the faith among the soldiers,” and that there’s a feeling of “a miracle, of life andContinue Reading
Krakow, Poland: A thief on June 18 returned the relics of a 19th-century Polish saint who inspired St. John Paul II and apologized for taking them. St. Joseph’s Church in the Podgórze district of Kraków, southern Poland, announced on its Facebook page June 18 that the relics of St. AlbertContinue Reading
Kathmandu: Floods and landslides have wreaked havoc in Nepal following the incessant rains on Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving scores dead and missing. More than 50 people are missing in a massive flood in Sindhupalchowk district which is located some 70 kilometers north from Capital, Kathmandu that has caused a hugeContinue Reading
Mandalay: The Myanmar military have arrested and released six Catholic priests and a lay Catholic in the village of Chan Thar, in the Archdiocese of Mandalay, 700 km north of Yangon. According to Father Dominic Jyo Du, vicar general of the archdiocese, on the night between 12 and 13 JuneContinue Reading
Rome: The Vatican has warned conservative American bishops to hit the brakes on their push to deny communion to politicians supportive of abortion rights — including President Biden, a faithful churchgoer and the first Roman Catholic to occupy the Oval Office in 60 years. But despite the remarkably public stopContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Yangon: In the wake of recent attacks on four Churches and the on-coming of monsoon, 13 Catholic Bishops along with president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon appealed for peace and reconciliation on humanitarian grounds saying, “We are not politicians, weContinue Reading
The Covid-19 pandemic in India continues unabated, with 29 million infections reported so far. The country, on June 10, recorded the world’s highest number of deaths from the disease in a single day, reaching the dramatic figure of almost 360 thousand. Video testimony For this reason, Caritas Internationalis (CI) releasedContinue Reading
Pope Francis has tapped a South Korean bishop to lead the Vatican office responsible for the world’s 400,000 Catholic priests, in the second major appointment of an Asian prelate to the Holy See during his papacy. Monsignor Lazarus You Heung-sik, currently the bishop of Daejeon, replaces the retiring Cardinal BeniaminoContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Institute for Religious Works, commonly known as the “Vatican bank,” announced June 11 that it recorded a net profit of $44 million in 2020. Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló, president of the Supervisory Commission of Cardinals, said that he was “delighted” by the figure considering the coronavirusContinue Reading
