Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has launched an investigation into a small Chilean religious order of nuns after some sisters denounced sexual abuse […]
Source: BBC News An Indian man has been released from prison after more than a month, for posting satirical tweets about erotic sculptures in a temple. In September, Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, […]
By AFP – Dec 09,2018 -JORDAN TIMES DONAUESCHINGEN, Germany — After surviving torment and rape at the hands of her Daesh captors, Nadia Murad rebuilt her life at a trauma […]
Guardian: Prince Charles has made a strong plea for coexistence and understanding between people of different faiths, saying extremism and division are not inevitable. The prince delivered a reflection on the dire situation for Christian minorities, particularly in the Middle East where many have been forced to flee their homes, during a special […]
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for […]
Dec 8, 2018 – swissinfo.ch KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Malay Muslims rallied in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to celebrate the Malaysian government’s refusal to ratify […]
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Source: Associated Press By Jim Gomez MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law in the country’s south by another year amid continuing […]
Source: AL.com By Christopher Harress | charress@al.com charress@al.com The Archdiocese of Mobile released Thursday 29 names of Catholic priests, deacons and brothers who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing a […]
Source: Religion News Service By Mary Beth McCauley PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — Catholics in this city and places like it have been through hell in recent decades. The Catholic Church sexual […]
Source: BBC News By Valeria Perasso Jessica Hayes bought herself a wedding gown, a veil and a ring. But when she stood at the altar facing the bishop during a […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla A Massachusetts church is mixing faith and politics in its nativity display this year ― placing a baby Jesus figurine in a cage to […]
Source: BBC News By Bernadette Young Anthony Mancinelli sits in a salon chair in New Windsor, New York, waiting for his next customer. Aged 107, Mancinelli is used to the […]
Source: Time By ALEX FITZPATRICK December 6, 2018 Captain America and Black Panther were about to defend Earth from the villain Thanos when Kevin Foley first noticed something was wrong. Foley, […]
Source: Associated Press By JIM GOMEZ and ANGIE WANG MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine immigration authorities have arrested an American Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting altar boys in […]
Source: Reuters By Thu Thu Aung, Simon Lewis YANGON (Reuters) – As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to […]
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen, south-east Asia correspondent A new exodus of boats carrying Rohingya fleeing from Myanmar has begun, with at least six boats carrying hundreds of refugees intercepted at […]
Source: Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater to life in prison, judicial sources said, in a […]
Source: Haartez ByNoa Landau and Ofer Aderet The European Union issued a new declaration on Thursday regarding its fight against anti-Semitism, adopting a softer tone than the one originally proposed by Austria, which was promoted over the […]
Source: CNN By James Griffiths (CNN)The former Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, who was found guilty in May of concealing the abuse of altar boys in the 1970s by pedophile priest James Fletcher, […]