Priests Against Genocide UK and Ireland sent a letter to the British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to call him “to recognise the UN finding of genocide, ban trade with illegal settlements, and impose a full arms embargo.” In the letter, signed by priests from Liverpool, London, Manchester, Surrey, Dorset and Fermanagh, they say: “We were…
Irish missionary Fr Shay Cullen has launched a new book recounting more than five decades campaigning against the exploitation and trafficking of women and children in the Philippines. Justice and Truth Win Freedom tells the story of Fr Cullen’s work with the Preda Foundation, which he founded in 1974 to protect vulnerable children, provide therapeutic…
A Belfast-based law firm has served pre-action correspondence on the Department of Education regarding its Initial Teacher Education Bursary Scheme, whose eligibility criteria excludes approximately 120 current students training to teach STEM and Irish-medium subjects at St Mary’s University College and Stranmillis University College. Phoenix Law is challenging the eligibility criteria of the bursary scheme,…
With the threat of legal assisted suicide looming larger every day in the UK, the president of the Scottish bishops’ conference has appealed to Catholics to contact their MPs to try and stop the bill. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is scheduled for a vote in the House of Commons on September…
The far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has drawn sharp criticism from Germany for his recent comments on the mass killing of Palestinians. “Ben-Gvir’s inhumane statements are diametrically opposed to Jewish values and damage Israel’s reputation,” said Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, in response to an enquiry from the Catholic…
Catholics in the Philippines observed a day of mourning on August 19, one day after a shooting at a Catholic school left two students dead. A ninth-grade student shot and killed a classmate in the grade above him on the morning of August 18 at the junior high school campus of Ateneo de Zamboanga University…
The Church in the Central African Republic has joined the nation in mourning the deaths of more than 100 people who died following the collapse of an artisanal gold mine on Tuesday, August 18. In a statement August 20, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bouar, Msgr Miroslaw Gucwa said it was with “immense…
Indigenous student-leaders and young people rallied in Bangladesh this week to protest what they say is the government’s failure to protect indigenous peoples and religious minorities. The human chain protest outside the National Museum in the capital, Dhaka, on August 18, followed an incident in which a mob attacked a Christian village after the body…
A leading British bishop has said he is “deeply alarmed” by the Israeli military’s decision to declare the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh a closed military zone after a series of settler attacks on the village. Bishop James Curry, auxiliary of Westminster and Lead Bishop for the Holy Land for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of…
A federal high court in Nigeria has restrained authorities in the country’s Kano state and the Islamic religious police, known as Hisbah, from arresting a 22-year-old woman because she converted from Islam to Christianity and rejected a forced marriage. In its May 26 ruling, the court described the actions taken against the woman, identified by…