Accord has made a number of job cuts in the mouth of Christmas

A group of politicians has vowed to take a case for the removal of a crucifix from parliament to the European Court after a local court rejected its case. According to some members of the Your Movement party, which took its original case in 2011, the cross, placed over a door in the debating chamber,…

A religious freedom advocacy group is calling for more action on a major increase of attacks on Christians in Mexico

The country’s leading court for the implementation of sharia law has called on the government to impose the death penalty as the only recourse in law for the crime of blasphemy. The Federal Court for the Sharia has stated that alternative sentences for those guilty of insulting Islam are unacceptable as such an offence is…

The Catholic bishops’ conference has described a lawsuit against it brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as “misguided”. Last week, The Irish Catholic reported on the legal action, alleging negligence against the bishops, under whose tenure, Catholic hospitals do not offer abortion as a medical option for women suffering complications during pregnancy. Responding…

Pope Francis has accused those considering women as cardinals within the Catholic Church as suffering from “clericalism”.

The head of the country’s episcopal conference has condemned legal moves to criminalise homosexuals. Following a Supreme Court ruling last week which overturned a 2009 High Court decision decriminalising of homosexuality under British colonial legislation, Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai decried the move as “unjust discrimination”. “As Christians,” Cardinal Gracias said, “we express our full…

Diocesan youth centre opened in St Malachy’s parish, Belfast