By Arun Kumar June 12, 2020: Amid fresh US criticism of the state of religious freedom in the country, India has justified denial of visas to teams from a bipartisan US body saying it had no locus standi on these issues. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hadContinue Reading
Washington, June 12, 2020: The top US military officer says he should not have joined President Donald Trump as he walked from the White House to a nearby church for a photo opportunity. Local authorities had used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the way of protesters so thatContinue Reading
Washington, June 12, 2020: A famous painting by the artist Caravaggio depicts the conversion of St. Paul when Christ called him on the road to Damascus. The painting shows St. Paul having been blinded by a light and flung from his horse onto the ground. For Deacon Patrick Agustin, hisContinue Reading
Peshawar, June 11, 2020: A Christian family in Pakistan was shot for buying a house in a Muslim neighborhood. On June 7, police in the city of Peshawar in the Khybar Pakhtunkhawa province arrested the sons of a man accused of shooting two members of the Christian family after theyContinue Reading
Rome, june, 11, 2020 As the Vatican continues to evaluate a reported Eucharistic miracle in Poland, the priest of the parish where it occurred says that the extraordinary event has led to conversions. Fr. Andrzej Ziombra is parish priest of St. Hyacinth in Legnica, Poland, where a consecrated Host wasContinue Reading
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
