Pope Francis will visit Myanmar and Bangladesh in November, the Vatican has confirmed. Greg Burke, the director of the Vatican press office, announced on August 28 that the Holy Father will travel to Myanmar on November 27, remaining in that country until November 30....
“Remember this, you mis-creants – we shall be in Rome, we shall be in Rome, Inch’ Allah!” The threat is clear. It comes from an ISIS Jihadi in the Philippines. In a video released on August 25, a group of “soldiers of the Caliphate” filmed themselves desecrating the...
A major article in an influe-ntial Chinese Communist Party (CPP) journal has warned cadres that adopting religious beliefs is not a private matter. Qiushi is the top-level journal on communist theory run by the Party’s central committee. The article by Wang Zuoan,...
Addressing a group of liturgical experts on August 24, 2017, Pope Francis said that after the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and a long path of experience, “We can affirm with certainty and magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is...
A Nigerian archbishop has called on the government to compensate churches and other victims of Islamist terror group Boko Haram. “In the past six years, insurgents have attacked churches and other Christian places in the north, but the federal government is yet to...
