Gina Christian A new report concludes that Russia is systematically persecuting believers of several faiths in Ukraine as part of a campaign of “cultural genocide”. “We see that Russia is now exporting (its) policies of state repression with laws in occupied Ukraine, which the Russian government considers to be Russia,” George Barros, geospatial intelligence team…

Knock shrine ‘open to everyone’ the rector tells Chai Brady, after controversial Biden visits for private prayer The worldwide attention Knock Shrine in Co. Mayo received after the visit of US President Joe Biden last week was “incredible”, according to the rector Fr Richard Gibbons. While there was backlash to the visit due to President…

The Easter season is a call to awareness of the early days of the Church and to be Church in our day. There are countless and powerful stories around healings in the name of Jesus.  Difficult stories too, about persecution of those who preached the word and ended up in prison, faced rejection or were…

British faith leaders – at the time of writing – were still awaiting the decision as to whether all faiths will be included in the Coronation oath of King Charles III on May 6; or if the Church of England will retain its exclusive control over the ceremony. Charles said, back in 1994, that he…

The Church needs defenders who will acknowledge its sins while pointing out its many accomplishments, writes David Quinn It is gloves off time now for the critics of the Catholic Church in Ireland. They have gone from rightly attacking the leadership of the Church over their appalling failure to stop clerical sex abuse until the…

Good Friday at 25 The View There has been much coverage in the last weeks of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. I have not wanted to watch much of it. My abiding memory of the signing of the agreement is that it induced in me a sense of great sorrow and distress…

Notebook Last Monday, April 10, marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday agreement. This agreement finally brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence and conflict. I was always deeply struck by the timing of when this historic peace agreement was reached – on the day the prince of peace…

We cannot predict the future of humankind, but nevertheless, experts in various fields continue to do so. In recent weeks, the experts at the investment banking empire Goldman Sachs have been telling us that Artificial Intelligence – the rise and rise of robots engineered by computerised science – will erase about 300 million jobs in…

Things we do every year are familiar, comforting and sometimes, numbing. Lent, Holy Week and Easter are supposed to remind us of the central, astonishing truth of Christianity – God loved us so much that he died for us. Even more astonishing, he then ended the dominion of death by rising. This ought to be…