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TURKISH MONASTERIES TO BE RETURNED TO THE CHURCH‍

Have the monks from one of the last monasteries in eastern Turkey finally won their battle? In 2014, fifty properties belonging to the Syrian Orthodox Church were expropriated by the government in southeast Turkey. Among them were several ancient monasteries where a dozen monks continue to live. Sin

REV. GRAHAM DIES; WORLD FAMOUS EVANGELIST WAS ADMIRED BY MOST AMERICANS

The Rev.Billy Graham, a fiery Baptist preacher who was easily the most famous evangelist of the 20th century and for decades one of the world figures most admired by Americans, died early Feb. 21 at his home in Montreat, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Associa- tion. He was 99. He had suffered from Parkin- […]

THEOLOGIAN: CHURCH DOCTRINE MUST BE LIFE-GIVING, NOT OPPRESSIVE

Richard Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College. He is the author of By What Authority? Foundations for Understanding Authority in the Church; the revised edition was just released by Liturgical Press, and An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism. Last month he was awarded […]

FROM NORTH KOREA TO CATHOLICISM: MI JIN’S ANSWERED PRAYER

During her childhood in North Korea, Mi Jin Kang never believed in the existence of God, until one person began to spark her curiosity. “From school education, I learned that religion is a drug,” Mi Jin told CNA, “However, I heard the story of God from a girl that I met in North Korea before my escape. This was […]

POPE FRANCIS BACKS DOWN IN NIGERIAN BISHOP ROW

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a diocesan bishop in Nigeria who has been at the centre of a long-running dispute in which local priests refused to accept his oversight. In its daily press bulletin, the Holy See said Pope Francis had accepted the “renunciation” or resignation of the Bishop of Ahiara in Nigeria, […]

IT’S TIME TO BE ‘HONEST’ IN DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS, SAYS CHALDEAN ARCHBISHOP

If Christians in the Middle East are going to be “honest” with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Arch-bishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic State’s rise to power in 2014. “We experienced this not for the […]