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Stop Exploiting Nuns for Cheap Church Labour, Vatican Magazine Urges

A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labour in the Roman Catholic Church on March 1, saying the male hierarchy should stop treating them like lowly servants. The article in the monthly “Women, Church, World”, remarkable for an official Vatican publication, described the drudgery of nuns who do work such […]

The Egyptian government “legalizes” 53 churches built before the law on Christian places of worship

The Egyptian government has provided full legal certificates to 53 churches with annexed service buildings already built before the new law on the construction of Christian buildings of worship passed by the Egyptian Parliament on August 30th 2016. A meeting of the government Commission set up specifically to conduct a census and examine the legalization […]

Will Pan-Amazonian Synod Result in End to Clerical Celibacy?

The Vatican announced on March 8 that Pope Francis has appointed members of a pre-synodal council who will collaborate with the secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in preparation for the Pan-Amazonian synod next year. Also announced was the theme of the October 2019 synod: Amazonia: new pathways for the Church and for an integral […]

African cardinal: Empty churches, not ‘remarried’ divorcees is western church’s

An African cardinal said he is “astonished” to see the church in the west fixated on “remarried” divorcees and on welcoming homosexuals and not on the bigger problem of empty churches. In a March 2 interview with the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk), the Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan — who is archbishop of […]

ASIA BIBI FAMILY APPEAL TO POPE FRANCIS FOR HELP

Pope Francis says a Catholic woman sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and a Nigerian woman who was captured by Jihadist militants Boko Haram are both “martyrs.” He made the remarks during a private audience in the Vatican with the husband and daughter of Asia Bibi, imprisoned since 2009 for an alleged offence against […]

NIGERIA’S BOKO HARAM CRISIS: COURT FREES 475 SUSPECTS

When mechanics Taye and Kehinde Hamza agreed to service a vehicle at their workshop in Nigeria’s Bauchi State in 2010, they could never have imagined the years of hell which would follow. The car, it turned out, belonged to a Boko Haram fighter, and the job was enough to get the twins arrested. It would […]

REV. GRAHAM DIES; WORLD FAMOUS EVANGELIST WAS ADMIRED BY MOST AMERICANS

The Rev.Billy Graham, a fiery Baptist preacher who was easily the most famous evangelist of the 20th century and for decades one of the world figures most admired by Americans, died early Feb. 21 at his home in Montreat, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Associa- tion. He was 99. He had suffered from Parkin- […]

THEOLOGIAN: CHURCH DOCTRINE MUST BE LIFE-GIVING, NOT OPPRESSIVE

Richard Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College. He is the author of By What Authority? Foundations for Understanding Authority in the Church; the revised edition was just released by Liturgical Press, and An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism. Last month he was awarded […]

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VENEZUELAN ARMY BESIEGED HUNDREDS OF PROTESTERS IN MATURIN CATHEDRAL

HOPE WANES IN CHURCH WOUNDED BY SIN, POPE TELLS PANAMA CLERGY, LAITY