Vatican City: The Vatican’s doctrinal office has urged Catholics not to promote “the alleged apparitions and revelations” associated with the Marian title of “Lady of All Nations,” according to a Dutch bishop. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s appeal was announced in a clarification issued December 30 byContinue Reading
Texas: A 21-year-old man hiding from police in the bathroom of an East Texas church has killed a pastor and injured two other people, including the pastor’s wife. The suspect, identified as Mytrez Beunte Woolen, on January 3 shot Mark McWilliams, the pastor of the Starrville Methodist Church in Winona,Continue Reading
By Feroz Fernandes Canada: A premier non-profit organization in the United States plans to launch in May the “Missionaries of Chastity” to curb internet pornography, the number one threat to innocence in the world. Jason Evert, the founder of Chastity Project, says increased harmful online sexual activity has become aContinue Reading
Vatican City: With a ball made from rags and surging adrenaline, the young Jorge Bergoglio and his friends pulled off “miracles” playing football in the street, Pope Francis recalled January 2. Now 84, the Argentine pope remembered “the joy, the happiness on everyone’s faces,” after the 1946 victory of hisContinue Reading
Rome: According to the Catholic outlet AsiaNews, headquartered in Rome, Bishop Andrea Han Jingtao, 99, a leader in the underground Catholic Church in China, died December 30. Han Jingtao was the underground Bishop of Siping. In his early years growing up in a Catholic family, Han received a high-quality formationContinue Reading
Persecution has been widespread across India and China even during the pandemic, but things are only likely to get worse in 2021, Release International has warned. The charity, which supports persecuted Christians worldwide, says that China has “bought the silence of the international community” through trade relations. This year hasContinue Reading
A Catholic bishop in Nigeria, who was kidnapped on Dec.27, has been released unharmed, according to the Archdiocese of Owerri. The diocese, which is in southeastern Nigeria, announced in a social media post late on Jan. 1 that Bishop Moses Chikwe and his driver, Ndubuisi Robert, had been released byContinue Reading
A 51-year old priest from Davao City died Dec. 28 after he collapsed while climbing Mt. Apo, the country’s highest mountain, via Kapatagan trail. According to the initial report from Digos City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Fr. Oscar Novem Enjaynes, along with 14 other climbers from the citiesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon: In a New Year message to his countrymen, Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo points out several reasons for hope despite the global pandemic year that sowed widespread despair and unprecedented panic. The cardinal called Covid 19 as “an existential disruption,” that made some 122 millionContinue Reading
Yangon: In a new year message released for his countrymen, India’s neighbouring Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo found several reasons for hope despite the global pandemic year that sowed widespread despair and unprecedented panic. The Asian cardinal called Covid 19 as “an existential disruption,” that made some 122 million peopleContinue Reading