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
Vatican City, Jun 5, 2020 — Pope Francis said Friday that people should not remain silent as biodiversity is threatened by destruction and exploitation, in a message marking World Environment Day. “Caring for ecosystems demands a look to the future, one that is not concerned only with the immediate momentContinue Reading
Beenleigh (Australia) June 5, 2020: Betty Graver may have been born in England, and she might live in Australia, but the 86 year old’s heart will always be with a group of orphans in India. For the past seven years, Ms Graver has been sending large donations to the BlessedContinue Reading
Texas, June 5, 2020: Pope Francis has called a bishop in the United States after the prelate joined a demonstration against racial discrimination to pray for George Floyd, an African-American killed by a policeman. Bishop Mark Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, on June 3 told local newsContinue Reading
Beijing, Jun 4, 2020: About 40 students and staff of a primary school in China were injured when a security guard attacked them with a knife, official media reported on Thursday, the latest such incident of mass attack by disgruntled people in the country. The incident happened at a schoolContinue Reading
Washington, June 4, 2020: Miscreants have vandalized a statue of Mahatma Gandhi statue situated in a public park across from the Indian Embassy in Washington. The statue was defaced with graffiti during the ongoing protests over the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American. The statue was spray painted withContinue Reading
