A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labour in the Roman Catholic Church on March 1, saying the male hierarchy should stop treating them like lowly servants. The article in the monthly “Women, Church, World”, remarkable for an...
The Egyptian government has provided full legal certificates to 53 churches with annexed service buildings already built before the new law on the construction of Christian buildings of worship passed by the Egyptian Parliament on August 30th 2016. A meeting of the...
The Vatican announced on March 8 that Pope Francis has appointed members of a pre-synodal council who will collaborate with the secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in preparation for the Pan-Amazonian synod next year. Also announced was the theme of the October 2019...
Two Sri Lankan priests who chose to stay among war-affected Tamils have written books about their experiences and challenges. Senior Catholic Priest Father Terrence Fernando and Anglican Father Mariamuttu Sathievel launched their books on March 5 at the Center for...
An African cardinal said he is “astonished” to see the church in the west fixated on “remarried” divorcees and on welcoming homosexuals and not on the bigger problem of empty churches. In a March 2 interview with the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF...
