Mosul:In Mosul, adjacent to the Biblical city of Nineveh, four churches representing different denominations occupy a small square surrounded by low-rise houses, testament to the role Iraq’s once flourishing Christian community played. Today, all four churches are either damaged or destroyed after Islamic State militants occupied the city from 2014-2017,Continue Reading
Rome: Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped some 300 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Jangebe in the north-western state of Zamfara. According to the state’s information commissioner, “Unknown gunmen came shooting sporadically and took the girls away” in a midnight raid on February 26 on the Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School.Continue Reading
A religious order announced on Feb 25 that it had withdrawn an application to exhume the body of its US-born founder following an outcry in England, where the nun is buried. In a Feb. 25 statement, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus said that it had abandoned plans toContinue Reading
Berlin: The head of the German Bishops’ Conference said Feb 25 that the country’s Roman Catholic church is suffering from a “scandalous image” amid mounting anger over the Cologne archbishop’s handling of a report on past sexual abuse by clergy, but he defended its overall record in addressing the issue.Continue Reading
By Will Maule Washington: A group of evangelical leaders have issued a statement condemning the role of Christian nationalism in January’s attack on the US Capitol. The attack, which saw hundreds of pro-Trump supporters storm the US government buildings, was condemned as an insurrection that threatened the safety of electedContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has expressed his condolences after three people were killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy traveling in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to Congo, died of his wounds from the attack. Vittorio Iacovacci, an Italian Carabinieri officer, and MoustaphaContinue Reading
London: A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was February 23 sentenced to a 10-month prison term for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus, Scotland. Earl of Strathmore Simon Bowes-Lyon, who is the son of a cousin of the 94-year-old British monarch, was found to have forcedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon: In a joint appeal for restoration of peace and reconciliation in the civil unrest following military coup on February 1, Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Myanmar has endorsed Buddhist monks warning. Bishops representing 16 Catholic dioceses in Myanmar in February 21 letter appealed to specially thoseContinue Reading
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic bishops says they are suspicious of the government’s motives in not sharing the report of a presidential commission of inquiry into Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks in 2019 that killed more than 260 people, and instead appointing another committee to study it. Bishop Julian WinstonContinue Reading
In a letter addressed to Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Francis remembers doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel who have died in the performance of their duties during the Covid-19 pandemic. By Christopher Wells Pope Francis has recalled the “generous” and “heroic” efforts ofContinue Reading
