QUETTA, Pakistan : Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in southwestern Balochistan province early on Jan 3, a Pakistani official said. The Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the attack. Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an official with the LeviesContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis warned Jan 3 against the temptation to ignore the suffering of others during the coronavirus pandemic and said that things will get better in the new year to the extent to which the needs of the weakest and most disadvantaged are prioritized. “We don’t know whatContinue Reading
Missouri: A US politician has caused a stir after finishing a public prayer with the phrase “Amen and a woman.” Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat, was delivering the opening prayer on the first day of the 117th Congress on January 3 when he made the remark, which many haveContinue Reading
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
