New York, June 10, 2020: The president of the U.N. General Assembly has said that world leaders will not be coming to New York for their annual gathering in late September for the first time in the 75-year history of the United Nations because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But TijjaniContinue Reading
Rome, June 10, 2020: With police brutality in focus around the world, one priest says it is important to remember a policeman who might one day be declared a saint: Vice-Sergeant Salvo D’Acquisto, an Italian policeman who gave his life for those he had sworn to protect. During the SecondContinue Reading
Tarababa, June 10, 2020: A pastor has been gunned down with his pregnant wife as he worked on the family farm in Nigeria’s Taraba state, premierchristian.news reported June 9. Unidentified gunmen shot dead the Reverend Emmanuel Saba Bileya and his wife, Juliana, on June 1, the agency quoted a statementContinue Reading
By Gabriel Pabico Lalu Manila, June 9, 2020: This year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation has been canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation has said. A June 8 statement from the Foundation’s Board of Trustees said they were left with no recourse but to cancel theContinue Reading
June 8,2020 : A cardinal has thanked Catholics for their “patience” after the government permitted churches in England to reopen for private prayer from June 15, more than 80 days after they were forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic. But public Masses will remain suspended until the governmentContinue Reading
Vatican City, Jun 8, 2020: Pope Francis has teamed up with Olympic athletes for a charity auction this month to support hospitals in the regions of Italy hardest hit by the coronavirus. Three-time world champion cyclist Peter Sagan donated a custom racing bike with the Vatican crest and colors forContinue Reading
By Marcus Jones Tehran, June 8, 2020: Middle East Concern, a religious freedom charity, has urged Christians around the world to pray for four men who in early June began prison sentences after converting to Islam. Hossein Kadivar, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian and Mohammed Vafadar started their five year sentencesContinue Reading
Vatican City, June 7, 2020: Pope Francis is cautioning people in countries emerging from coronavirus lockdowns to keep following authorities’ rules for COVID-19 containment. ‘Be careful, don’t cry victory, don’t cry victory too soon,” he said on June 7. Italy’s gradual easing of stay-at-home rules now allows the public toContinue Reading
Washington, June 6, 2020: Hundreds of thousands of Americans on June 6 took to the streets marking one of the most expansive mobilizations yet in the nationwide protests against police violence and systemic racism sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis The protesters carried placards reading blackContinue Reading
June 6, 2020: The Orthodox Church of Greece has proscribed yoga as “absolutely incompatible” with Christianity and not a “kind of exercise” since “yoga is a fundamental part of the religion of Hinduism.” The Synodal Committee on Heresies under Abp. Ieronymos II of Athens and all Greece announced on JuneContinue Reading
