Vatican City: Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ former finance minister, will soon return to the Vatican during an extraordinary economic scandal for the first time since he was cleared of child abuse allegations in Australia five months ago, a church agency said Sept.28 Pell will fly back to Rome onContinue Reading
Manila: Pope Francis on September 28 appointed Archbishop Charles John Brown as the new nuncio to the Philippines. The appointment was made public at noon in Rome. Archbishop Brown was born in New York on October 13, 1959, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New York onContinue Reading
Rome: As many as 45.7 million people were internally displaced as a result of conflict and disasters in 61 countries and territories around the world by the end of 2019, according to the Global Report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. “This figure is the highest ever recorded,” Caritas InternationalisContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul has been nominated for the Sakharov Prize for his work to preserve hundreds of historic manuscripts from destruction by the Islamic State in 2014. Dominican Archbishop Najeeb Michaeel has worked since 1990 to preserve manuscripts and other historic documents from the Mosul area.Continue Reading
London: Combining creativity, debate, stories of political activism and practical action, poetry and prayer – the free Online Festival promises to entertain, inform and inspire. The October 23-25 festival to be held via Zoom will kick off with a panel discussion: “Re-imagining a better future” featuring Bishop James Jones, CleoContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon, Sept 25, 2020: A group of inter faith leaders meeting on South East Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief (SEAFoRB) endorsed the role of religious leaders in peace-building and conflict resolution. Addressing the September 25 on-line gathering of 6th SEAFoRB, Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung BoContinue Reading
New Delhi: The largest Christian human rights association of Bangladesh, ‘the Bangladesh Christian Association (BCA)’ has asked the government of Pakistan to repeal the controversial blasphemy law. The BCA submitted a memorandum to the Pakistan embassy in Dhaka on Wednesday demanding to end persecution and harassment of Christians and otherContinue Reading
Berlin, September 24, 2020: The Catholic Church in Germany is setting up a new system to compensate survivors of sexual abuse by clergy that will provide for payments of up to about 50,000 euros (USD 58,400) to each victim. Victims will be able to apply for payments under the newContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Manila, Sept 24, 2020: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, has recovered from coronavirus disease. After several days of strict self-isolation, he has tested negative for COVID-19, said a September 23 message. “On this Feast Day of Padre Pio,Continue Reading
By Rose Achiego Nairobi, Sept 23, 2020: The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has appointed a Catholic nun to set up a national Catholic television station. Sister Agnes Lucy Lando, the director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Kenya’s Daystar University, is the coordinator and lead consultant to assistContinue Reading
