A Catholic priest burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria. The body of Fr Isaac Achi was found among the charred parish building of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church on January 15, according to the Catholic Diocese of Minna, Nigeria. He died after armed bandits…
Hospital staff under “huge pressure” are in “crisis management”, the Director of Pastoral Care at Tallaght University Hospital Fr John Kelly has said. This comes as the HSE revealed that attendances at emergency departments across the country have been higher this year than ever before. “Staff are very much under pressure, I mean, it’s the…
Peru’s bishops have called on the country’s government to stop violence that claimed at least 18 lives in anti-government protests January 9-10 and has left more than 40 people dead and hundreds injured since early December. After expressing their condolences to the families of those killed and promising pastoral accompaniment to the wounded, the bishops…
A court ruled at a January 10 hearing that a Nicaraguan bishop, who has been detained since August, will stand trial on the charges of spreading false information and conspiracy. Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, who has been accused of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity” and “to spread fake news” appeared wearing a white shirt…
Burgeoning future scientists from around the country gathered in the RDS last week for the annual BT Young Scientist. The young men and women showcased a wide variety of projects from saving Ireland’s ash trees to improving attitudes around recyling, from January 11-13 in Dublin. “It’s been an amazing experience,” said Daniel Castles from Coláiste…
The Filipino Catholic community celebrated the feast of Santo Niño de Cebú on Sunday in a packed Berkeley Road church. Santo Niño is the title given to the oldest Catholic artefact in the Philippines, a statue gifted by the Spaniard Conquistador Ferdinand Magellan to Rajah Humabon in 1521. Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell celebrated Mass…
Spanish Christian lawyers demand series promoting paedophilia be axed The Christian Lawyers Foundation in Spain has begun an online petition calling for the cancellation of Scandal, Story of an Obsession, a television series that portrays the relationship between a 42-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy. For Christian Lawyers, the series promotes “the most absolute whitewashing…
Record November homeless figures ‘disappointing’ – McVerry Trust Homelessness hit record levels for the fifth straight month in November 2022, with the Peter McVerry Trust calling the news “disappointing”. The figures, released on January 6, show that 11,542 people are in homeless accommodation across Ireland. The Homeless Report for November 2022 was issued by the…
Old rivalries take centre stage at Vatican trial Francesca Chaouqui, convicted by a Vatican court in 2016 of leaking confidential Vatican documents, was back on the stand before Vatican magistrates January 13, testifying in a long-running trial on financial misconduct. Ms Chaouqui, once a member of the now-defunct Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative…
It would have been hard to avoid media coverage of Prince Harry’s all-too-revealing autobiography, Spare, out this week. Aside from the un-sparing details from his private life, there is serious official concern at his apparent boast that he killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. British security sources are dismayed that he may have made himself,…
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