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Pope, President Trump speak of hopes for peace

Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump spent 30 minutes speaking privately in the library of the Apostolic Palace on May 24, and as the president left, he told the Pope, “I won’t forget what you said.” The atmosphere at the beginning was formal and a bit stiff. However, the mood lightened when Pope Francis […]

US First Lady Melania Trump is Catholic, spokeswoman confirms

United States First Lady Melania Trump is a practising Catholic, her spokeswoman has confirmed. Following speculation over Mrs Trump’s faith during her visit to the Vatican on May 24th, her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham confirmed to Daily Mail.com that the First Lady is indeed Catholic. Mrs Trump placed flowers at the feet of a statue of the […]

Masked gunmen kill 28 in attack on Christians in Egypt

Gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians travelling to a monastery in central Egypt, killing 28 people and wounding 24, with many children among the victims, Health Ministry officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan. It followed a series of […]

Russians fight ransom ware virus with holy water

After malware hacked as many as 200,000 computers throughout the world, the Russians have an idea: Blessing the computers with holy water. The most recent attacks have been through a form of ransomware called “Wanna-Cry,” which is malicious software that locks up a person’s data and demands, either through a pop-up window or e-mail, that […]

COMMISSION BELIEVES FIRST SEVEN MARIAN APPARITIONS AT MEDJUGORJE WERE REAL BUT DOUBTS AUTHENTICITY OF OTHERS

The commission that now-retired Pope Benedict XVI established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmi-ngly to recognise as supernatural the first seven appearances of Mary in 1981. However, according to a report published by the website Vatican Insider, the commission was much more doubtful about the thousands of alleged […]

Pope canonizes Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints

Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints, canonizing shepherd siblings believed to have seen the Mado-nna 100 years ago in a Portuguese town that is now a major pilgrimage site. Hundreds of, thousands of, people, many of whom slept outdoors to hold their places, broke into applause as the leader of […]

Berlin Protestant Church Day Celebrating 500th Anniversary Of The Reformation Attracts Thousands

For four days from 24-28 May, the Kirchentag was one of the highlights of the Reformation Jubilee. Prominent religious leaders, politicians, economists and other well-known personalities, including former US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Muhammad el-Tayyeb, spoke on and […]

Polish PM’s son ordained as priest

Tymoteusz Szydlo, 25, son of Poland’s Prime Minister was ordained on Saturday May 27 in a ceremony attended by the Polish head of government and her family in the southern city of Bielsko-Biala. Prime Minister Szydlo’s other son, 23-year-old Blazej, is a medical student.