India’s government has been called upon to protect Christians during Holy Week, following recent attacks on Christian communities in the country. Addressing the National Commission for Human Rights, Sajan K George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians, said: “It seems that praying in India has become a crime. Christians are not treated like…
Singer Nicole Scherzinger has revealed she regularly prays before making important decisions in her life. The former X-Factor judge told the Daily Record that she was a “very spiritual girl” and “grew up in a religious family”. Scherzinger, who is a Catholic, has previously spoken about how faith helped her overcome her battle with bulimia.…
About 2,100 children in Nicaragua can no longer attend school because teachers in over 60 schools have been driven from their posts by armed groups, a local bishop has said. Estelí’s Bishop Abelardo Mata,who has visited the area around San José de Bocay, said teachers in the area have been threatened by militants who want…
A Belfast woman who raised concerns about the suspected British army killing of her father with Pope Francis, said he responded to her more quickly than PSNI officers investigating the case. Patricia McVeigh believes her father Patrick McVeigh was shot dead by members of the British army’s Military Reaction Force (MRF) in May 1972. She…
Pope calls for migrants to be allowed cross borders Pope Francis has called on political leaders to allow migrants enter their countries. Speaking before 40,000 people at his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square, he said, “I like to see leaders who open their hearts and their doors” to the many migrants fleeing their countries. Recalling our many “brothers and sisters who…
A former government minister has criticised the State after the Diocese of Elphin confirmed it was forced to pull out of a local family life centre to guarantee future funding. Dr Martin Mansergh, who also served as special adviser to successive Taoisigh said it “is sad when the State withdraws financial support for work that…
Women religious carry olive branches past Israeli border police before the annual Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City. Photo: CNS
Cork bishop ‘grateful’ for UCC students’ safety Bishop of Cork and Ross, Dr John Buckley, said that he was “grateful” that three students from University College Cork have survived a bus crash in Spain which killed 13 people. The weekend saw a number of tragic road deaths, including a family of five in Donegal, an accident in Mallow which killed one…
From the beginning, part of the narrative about Pope Francis has been that he’s sort of the anti-Pope Benedict XVI. Where Benedict was cold and aloof, Francis is seen as warm and populist; where Benedict was rigid and dogmatic, Francis is open and flexible; where Benedict was a man of the system, Francis is the…
Limerick diocese will consider a number of creative ways to re-engage people who have become alienated from the Church at a major synod next month. Delegates to the synod – the first to take place in Ireland in half a century – will vote on more than 100 key proposals aimed at boosting Mass attendance…
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