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Record number of Catholic priests arrested, abducted or murdered in 2023
last year 132 priests and religious were arrested, abducted or killed globally, according to latest research. belarus, china, nicaragua and ...
The Catholic Herald
Ecuadorian Catholics negotiate and pray during prison riot crisis
são paulo, brazil – one week after a drug lord escaped from prison and detonated an unprecedented crisis of violence in ecuador, local catho...
EduardoCamposLima
Prayers answered: Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for life gains freedom, though exiled to Vatican
nicaragua has released a bishop jailed for 26 years after he stood up to the regime of president daniel ortega. bishop rolando álvarez of ma...
Simon Caldwell
Cameroon bishops denounce Boko Haram atrocities as terrorist group wages war to create African ‘Islamic caliphate’
yaoundè – catholic bishops in the west african nation of cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict for the past seven years, have d...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
New poll finds Pope’s unfavourable rating among Americans at all-time high
new york – a new survey conducted this past december has found that while most american adults still have a favourable view of pope francis,...
johnlavenburg
Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick deemed not competent to stand trial in abuse case
new york – a wisconsin judge on 10 january suspended a sexual assault case against theodore mccarrick after a court-appointed psychologist f...
johnlavenburg
US criticised for not addressing mounting 'genocide’ against Christians during bloody ‘Islamisation’ of Nigeria
yaoundè, cameroon – with nigerians sounding alarms over what some describe as a mounting “genocide” against christians in africa’s most popu...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
Irish Medical Council endorses 'fundamental shift' in medical ethics paving way for government euthanasia push
the irish medical council has updated its ethical guidelines for doctors. the standout change—and a disturbing change, especially given the ...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Saint Paul & Minneapolis: ministry of 'imprudent' Archbishop Nienstedt inhibited
new york – a vatican investigation into alleged misconduct by former saint paul & minneapolis archbishop john nienstedt has cleared him ...
johnlavenburg
Sudanese bishops plead for peace as fighting claims 12,000 lives in under a year
yaoundè, cameroon – as a deadly conflict continues to rage in sudan, catholic bishops both inside the country and in neighbouring south suda...
Ngala Chimtom
‘Deteriorating situation’: Persecution of Catholic Church in Nicaragua
new york – archbishop thomas wenski of miami has said nicaragua's dictatorship has gone “off the rails” with the latest round of arrests of ...
johnlavenburg
Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy
police in nicaragua have arrested two more catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go i...
Simon Caldwell
French politics is suffocating the Spirit of Christmas
emmanuel macron found himself in a spot of bother earlier in december when he invited france’s chief rabbi to the elysee palace to light the...
Gavin Mortimer
Turkey votes for Christmas
…or at least its president seems to, explains lucien de guise . there was a glimmer of hope in the miasma of the middle east after the hamas...
Lucien de Guise
Israel accuses Latin Patriarch of 'blood libel' in row over sniper shootings of Gaza civilians
rome – days after two women were killed at the catholic parish in gaza, with local church authorities pinning blame on idf forces, israel’s ...
Elise Allen
Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
the following christmas message was released 21 december 2023 by the patriarchs and heads of the churches in jerusalem, in which they highli...
The Catholic Herald
No, the Church has not changed her doctrine on the liceity or blessing of same-sex unions
the vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the roman curia, has duped the international press...
Tom Colsy
Cardinal Nichols ‘heartbroken’ over attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church that he knows personally
leicester, crux – cardinal vincent nichols, the leader of the uk's roman catholics, says he is “heartbroken” over the attack on a catholic c...
Charles Collins
'Senseless' attacks in Gaza: Christians shot and killed at Holy Family Church
on saturday the latin patriarchate of jerusalem issued a statement that confirmed that a member of the israeli defence force (idf) had shot ...
The Catholic Herald
Mercy strikes again: the unjust treatment of Cardinal Burke
rome - the cardinals are originally, and still ceremonially, the clergy of the church of rome: the bishops of the suffragan dioceses, the pa...
Diana Montagna
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