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
Rome: Three Italian researchers have expressed doubt as to whether the bones of St. Peter actually lie beneath the Rome basilica named in his honor. The researchers have suggested that the relics may have been moved from where St. Peter’s Basilica now stands during a 3rd-century persecution. In fact, theyContinue Reading
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Department of Ayurveda and Alternative Medicines on June 7 stopped distribution of’ Coronil kits that were gifted by the Patanjali group of Indian yoga teacher and businessman Ramdev. Kathmandu’s order cited that proper procedures were not followed while procuring the 1,500 kits of Coronil that Patanjali claims areContinue Reading
Rome : The Diocese of Shanghai has four new priests. Ordained on June 5, they were supposed to be five, but one deacon was not ordained on government orders because he attended on his own World Youth Day, in Krakow (Poland), from 25 to 31 July 2016. For this reason,Continue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis told a group of young French priests on June 7 that weakness is a chance for encounter with God, and not something they should try to overcome by their own strength. “My fragility, the fragility of each one of us, is a theological place of encounterContinue Reading
