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
By Brandon Showalter Washington: Men and women who once lived and identified as part of the LGBT community are confident that a “rainbow revival” is at hand. Gathered under the blazing sun with temperatures in the mid-90s at the Sylvan Theater in the shadow of the Washington Monument, approximately 200Continue Reading
Islamabad: A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian couple who have spent seven years on death row for alleged blasphemy, their lawyer says, in a case that rights groups have long singled out for fair trial issues. The Lahore High Court acquitted Shafqat Emmanuel and his wife Shagufta Masih afterContinue Reading
By Salvatore Cernuzio Munich: German Cardinal Reinhard Marx on May 4 asked Pope Francis to accept his resignation as head of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising, saying he “is willing to personally bear responsibility” not only for his own mistakes in dealing with the clerical abuse scandal, but also for theContinue Reading
