When Sr. Mary Rose Mukuki-bogo first approached women in Gisagara, southern Rwanda, about starting an agricultural associa-tion, they were furious. It was 1997, three years after the 100-day genocide in 1994 that killed more than a million people during the fighting...
On 10 July, the seminarians in a house of formation in the Ahiara diocese woke as usual; but their morning prayer was anything but routine. The atmosphere was like a graveyard. The deadline given by Pope Francis for all the priests of the diocese to pledge obedience...
While Rome reels from one of its worst droughts in decades, the Vatican is doing its part to conserve water by shutting down the city-state’s 100 fountains. The office governing Vatican City State announced July 25 that the drought has “led the Holy See to take...
In a tribute to the late Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI praised the German prelate for his “conviction that the Lord does not leave His Church, even if at times the ship is almost filled to the point of shipwreck.” The message from the retired...
The Venezuelan Church has announced that it will no longer participate in the “national dialogue” between the pro-Chavez government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition. “There are obvious issues that were brought to the table from the beginning of the discussions in...
