Cairo: Shipping traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal resumed March 20 after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, the canal authority said. The 400-meter long Ever Given became jammed diagonally across a southern section of the canal in high windsContinue Reading
Yangon: Dozens of people have reportedly been killed across Myanmar as soldiers and the police suppressed protests against last month’s military coup. Up through to March 26, the Association of Political Prisoners had verified 328 people killed in the post-coup crackdown in Myanmar. The latest deaths were reported as Myanmar’sContinue Reading
Makassar: A suspected suicide bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on March 28 left at least 14 people wounded, police say. Police said an explosion erupted as two attackers tried to enter the church on Palm Sunday, the first day of Easter Week. AContinue Reading
Pope Francis has condemned the way the Mafia is exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic by taking advantage of those in dire economic circumstances. Marking Italy’s recent national day of remembrance for victims of the Mafia, the pope accused members of organised crime groups of “enriching themselves through corruption,” and he urgedContinue Reading
Yangon: Security forces killed more than 90 people across Myanmar on March 27 in one of the bloodiest days of protests since a military coup, news reports and witnesses said. The lethal crackdown came on Armed Forces Day. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the junta leader, said during a paradeContinue Reading
Wellington: New Zealand’s Catholic Church has formally apologized to the survivors of abuse within the church and said its systems and culture must change. Cardinal John Dew, archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand, made the apology March 26 at the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care on behalfContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chiang Mai: A webinar organized by the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) has stressed community engagement to defend the right to water for all people. “Churches together with other faith-based organizations and civil society movements can play a major role in raising awareness on the globalContinue Reading
Vatican City: As the world continues to adopt measures to combat the ongoing health emergency, the Office of Papal Charities, in response to Pope Francis’s numerous appeals that no one be excluded from receiving the Covid-19 vaccines, is taking action to accompany the most vulnerable. A statement released on MarchContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See. In a decree published online March 24 by the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Francis said that starting in April cardinals’ salaries will be reduced 10 percent.Continue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini Salt Lake City: Bishops in the United States have condemned with the recent mass shootings against three Asian-owned businesses in Atlanta, Georgia, in which eight people were killed and one person was wounded. A gunman killed eight people and wounded one other on March 17. The violenceContinue Reading
