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EGYPT ATTACKS WILL NOT PREVENT POPE’S ‘MISSION FOR PEACE’, VATICAN CONFIRMS‍

The Vatican has said Pope Francis will continue with his visit to Egypt later this month despite raised security fears following the deadly terrorist attacks on churches at the weekend. Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, a top diplomat at the Holy See’s Secretariat of State, said the Pope is sticking wit

Washing women’s feet can give healing touch: Bishops told

An ecumenical women’s forum says the inclusion of women for the feet washing ritual will help the Indian Church offer a healing touching amid clergy abuse cases. A symbolic representation of “inclusion liturgy” celebrated in parishes and Mass centres across India “will have a healing effect especially in the light of the recent instances of […]

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN BELGIUM SACKS LECTURER WHO CALLED ABORTION ‘THE MURDER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON’

A visiting lecturer at Belgium’s Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) has been dismissed after arguing that abortion was murder in his philosophy class for first-year students and saying it could be “worse than rape.” The comments by Stéphane Mercier created an uproar at the university, the francophone twin of the Flemish-language Catholic University of Leuven, […]