The Archbishop of Canterbury will take a three-month sabbatical next year for “reflection, prayer, and spiritual renewal,” Lambeth Palace has confirmed. The announcement was made at the Canterbury Diocesan Synod on Nov.21 – and Justin Welby is expected to be away from May to July 2021, studying in either CambridgeContinue Reading
Vatican: Pope Francis says in a new book that he can relate to people in intensive care units who fear dying from Covid-19 because of his own experience when part of his lung was removed 63 years ago. Italian newspapers published excerpts of the new book Let Us Dream: TheContinue Reading
London: A U.K.-based charity has called on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to grant asylum to a 14-year-old Christian girl who was abducted at gunpoint during the Covid-19 lockdown and forcibly married and converted to Islam by a Muslim married man. The Catholic charity Aid to Church in Need, whichContinue Reading
Birmingham: A Mother Teresa scholar from UK explained the epiphany moment in the life of two Alabnian ‘national heroes’ who lived 600 years apart. In the Zoom Talk on November 23, Mother Teresa author and scholar from Birmingham University, UK, himself an Albanian, Dr Gezim Alpion explored the lives andContinue Reading
Vatican: Pope Francis offered Mass for the Feast of Christ the King on Nov. 22, and afterward oversaw the traditional passing of the World Youth Day cross and Marian icon to a delegation from Portugal. At the end of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 22, the World Youth DayContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican has launched an investigation into how Pope Francis’s Instagram account “liked” a raunchy photograph of a Brazilian bikini model with her bottom on display, an official said November 20. Natalia Garibotto, 27, posed in a white cropped top, suspenders and the smallest of tartan skirts forContinue Reading
Hong Kong: After a long week of cooking and cleaning in the cramped households of Hong Kong, a group of Filipino domestic helpers are using their Sunday off for an unlikely hobby: cricket. And they’re proving rather good at it. Despite no background in the game, scant coaching and veryContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news reporter Jakarta: Authorities in Jakarta will implement strict health protocols in the coming days after a hard-line Muslim cleric violated restrictions when he attended mass gatherings in the Indonesian capital. According to local media, Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria announced that large social gatherings will be prohibitedContinue Reading
New York: The United Nations human rights commissioner has called for international attention and aid in Mozambique in response to an escalating series of attacks by Islamist militant groups. “The situation is desperate both for those trapped in conflict-affected areas, with barely any means of surviving, and for those displacedContinue Reading
China has no theological basis to pick the next Dalai Lama, according to a top US diplomat, asserting that the Tibetan Buddhists have successfully picked their spiritual leader for hundreds of years. “I travelled to Dharamshala, India to speak to the Tibetan community that were assembled there in exile andContinue Reading
