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
Karachi: A road in Karachi was named after an award winning Catholic nun for her work in education. Berchman’s Road near Clifton, Karachi was inaugurated on November 16 by Iftikhar Ali Shallwani, commissioner of Karachi, Fazal Karim Dadabhoy, honorary consul of Ivory Coast, in presence of teachers, nuns, students andContinue Reading
Declining fertility rates have a significant correlation with increased secularization, according to Baylor University professor Philip Jenkins. In a Regent College (Vancouver, British Columbia) live-stream titled “Fertility and Faith: A Conversation with Philip Jenkins,” the Baylor University professor of history and co-director of the program on historical studies of religion,Continue Reading
Rome: A Polish cardinal recently sanctioned by the Vatican for sexual abuse has died at the age of 97. Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz died November 16 morning, the Polish bishops’ conference announced. In early November, the apostolic nunciature in Poland announced disciplinary measures against the cardinal on Nov. 6 as theContinue Reading
Manila: The death toll from the deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines this year has climbed to 67, with 12 people still missing, the national disaster management agency has said. President Rodrigo Duterte was scheduled to fly to the northern Tuguegarao province later in the day to assess the situationContinue Reading
Rome: The Chinese government’s latest five-year plan proposal contains a birth policy with an emphasis on eugenics, a China scholar said this week. China, known for its decades-long one-child policy, is now looking to counter its ageing population by encouraging Chinese women to have more babies — but only certainContinue Reading
