Pope Francis launched Tuesday the Vatican’s seven-year Laudato si’ action plan to implement environmental sustainability in different sectors of the Church from religious orders to Catholic schools and hospitals. “We need a new ecological approach that can transform our way of dwelling in the world, our styles of life, ourContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican said on May 26 that it hopes the coronavirus pandemic will “further unite” Catholics and Buddhists in service of the suffering. In its annual message for the Buddhist feast of Vesakh, issued May 26, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said that the virus challenged followersContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar has decried the brutal attack and killing of civilians who took shelter in Church. Four people died and 8 people were seriously injured when Sacred Heart Church in Kayanthayar Parish near Loikaw, the capital city of Kayah state, cameContinue Reading
Hanoi: Vietnam is facing its fourth COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began, but appears again able to contain the spread of the virus and prevent a surge of infections and deaths. As a result, the Vietnamese government and Vietnamese Buddhist associations have come to India’s aid, which is struggling toContinue Reading
Rome: Pope Francis has challenged the Vatican’s own media employees to essentially justify their continued work, asking them how many people actually consume their news. The Pope raised these questions as he on May 24 visited the office that costs the Holy See more than all its embassies around theContinue Reading
Abuja: One priest has been killed and another kidnapped from a parish in northern Nigeria. Father Alphonsus Bello was killed and Father Joe Keke was abducted on May 20, by a group of armed men who stormed the parish of St Vincent Ferrer in Malunfashi, in the state of Katsina,Continue Reading
New Delhi: Profits from Covid-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group claimed, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations’ “monopoly control” on vaccine technology. “Between them, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of US$19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate all peopleContinue Reading
Pope Francis and leading Vatican officials have held a meeting with many members of the world’s global financial elite on how to reshape the world after the Covid pandemic. Finance ministers of seven countries joined the gathering, on May 14 in the Vatican’s Casino Pio IV. Called “Dreaming of aContinue Reading
Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s incoming Roman Catholic bishop Stephen Chow called for plurality to be respected, in a time of polarization in the Catholic community as the city”s political situation deteriorates. Chow said while he had “no big plan” on how to unify a diocese that had become politically polarizedContinue Reading
London: On July 6, Máire Lea-Wilson intends to walk into the imposing Royal Courts of Justice in London to take part in a case that could make history. The 33-year-old accountant is one of two people who applied to the High Court to hear a landmark case challenging the U.K.’sContinue Reading
