‘It is harder for Catholics to defend their basic rights’ in the European country, Cardinal Vinko Puljiæ says. Up to 10,000 Catholics are leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina every year because of state discrimination against the religious minority, according to the country’s...
A leading Egyptian Jesuit says fundamentalists want to cause conflicts among Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Fr William Sidhom said the Muslim Brotherhood, an international conservative Islamic political movement founded in Egypt in 1928, wants “to make their own...
The German Church has been accused of failing to make church finances transparent as the German bishops’ conference had promised it would in 2014 after Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst – since referred to as the Bishop of Bling – was suspended by the Vatican...
A recently-released study estimates that abortion in India is twenty times higher than previous estimates–15.6 million children aborted in 2015 alone. The news led abortion advocates to call on New Delhi to liberalize India’s abortion law even further, past the...
Two decades ago, Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army stormed St Monica’s with guns firing, searching for children they could coerce to be new soldiers. But on this day in January 2017, the bullet holes that still pepper the ceiling of the classrooms were contrasted...
