In the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Vientiane a large banner is hard to miss. The “17 Martyrs of Laos” banner hangs from the ceiling of Vientiane’s only Catholic Church and commemorates a group of Catholics, including several priests, who died between 1954 and...
Ukraine’s Catholic Church has welcomed a vote by MPs to make the 25 December Western Christmas a public holiday for the first time, in addition to the 7 January Orthodox Christmas. “We’re very grateful to the parliament – it’s a great joy for our faithful, who...
The government and trade unions want workers to spend more time with their families Polish MPs have approved a bill that will phase out Sunday shopping by 2020. Initially proposed by trade unions, the idea received the support of the ruling conservative Law and...
It was supposed to be a day of rest – Tuesday 28 November – with the planned institutional meetings and the speech before the political authorities of the country. But Francis accelerated the times and this afternoon in the palace of the Archbishopric of...
An Italian missionary-priest is undertaking a 450-kilometer bicycle journey with two compa-nions from northern Bangladesh to meet Pope Francis in the country’s capital Dhaka. Father Almir Trindade, 38, from Ponti-fical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) set off on...
