Tokyo, July 5, 2020: Deep floodwaters and the risk of more mudslides that left at least 34 people confirmed or presumed dead hampered search and rescue operations July 5 in southern Japan, including at elderly home facilities where more than a dozen died and scores were still stranded. Helicopters andContinue Reading
Mosco, July 5, 2020: The Russian Orthodox Church on July 3 defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken control of a monastery. A church panel in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg ruled to defrock 65-year-old Father Sergiy, who has attracted nationwide attention by urgingContinue Reading
Rome, July 5, 2020: Pope Francis is praising U.N. Security Council efforts for worldwide cease-fires to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic. In remarks July 5 to the public in St. Peter’s Square, Francis hailed the Security Council’s “request for a global and immediate cease-fire, which would permit the peace andContinue Reading
Germany, July 4, 2020: The German bishops’ conference has announced that a record number of people are leaving the Catholic Church, with some 272,771 exiting the faith community during 2019. That number indicates a decrease of another 56,000 compared to the 216,000 who left in 2018. The previous record numberContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Yangon, 4th July 2020 — A jade mine disaster in northern Myanmar killing some 200 and injuring another 100 poor migrant workers has made Myanmar’s cardinal mourn the human tragedy. In a letter addressed to Bishop Francis Daw Tang of Myitkyina and the faithful of his diocese,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon, July 2, 2020: In a call for prayer sent out on July 1, the head of the Catholic Church in Asia has appealed to heads of various religions “to pray for Hong Kong, and indeed for China and all her people, with great insistence.” CardinalContinue Reading
Tokyo, July 2, 2020: Almost 3,500 teachers and students at more than a dozen public schools in Japan’s Yashio city have become sick with diarrhea and stomach pains in a mass food poisoning outbreak. Saitama prefecture said on July 2 that 3,453 people in 15 elementary and middle schools inContinue Reading
Islamabad, July 2, 2020: A few religious factions on July 1 denounced the government’s move of building temple in Islamabad and termed it against Pakistan’s ideology. The religious parties also announced that they would take up the issue in the Federal Shariat Court. In a joint press conference in Islamabad,Continue Reading
Cairo, July 2, 2020: Egypt”s highest court on July 2 upheld a death sentence for a former monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo in 2018. The Court of Cassation also reduced a death sentence against another former monk to life in prison. TheContinue Reading
By Courtney Mares Rome, July 1, 2020: Benedict XVI’s older brother Monsignor Georg Ratzinger died July 1, just a little more than one week after the pope emeritus’ visit. Monsignor Georg Ratzinger died in Bavaria at the age of 96. The pope emeritus was able to say a last goodbyeContinue Reading
