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World’s best high jumper has low-profile meeting with pope

Despite holding the world record in the high jump, Javier Sotomayor kept his feet on the ground and didn’t try to clear the waist-high wooden barricade between him and Pope Francis. The now-retired 50-year old Cuban track-and-fielder was part of a small athletic delegation from Cuba greeting the Pope at the end of his May […]

Ranchi, beheaded pastor was a tribal, a ‘peripheral’ being

The Pentecostal Christian pastor beheaded near Ranchi, in Jharkhand, was a tribal, informs Msgr. Paschal Topno, Archbishop emeritus of Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh. According to the prelate, the real reason for the reverend’s murder is to be found in his aboriginal origins. “Being a tribal Christian in India – he says – means being peripheral. […]

Christians of Pakistan join Asia Bibi in fasting and praying

Christian Churches and groups in Pakistan have responded to the call of death row Christian woman, Asia Bibi, to join her in a special day of prayer and fasting for her release. Her appeal was conveyed by her family that visited her recently and by the Renaissance Education Foundation in Lahore that supports her family […]

Cardinal Tauran in Riyadh speaks about the needed interreligious dialogue, education and concrete actions

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tau-ran, President of the Ponti-fical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, visited Saudi Arabia (April 14-20), where he was received by King Salman. During his stay, the media described the visit as a “desire for rapprochement,” as a “stage in the opening of the Saudi kingdom to other religions,” as a “ripples of openness.” However, […]

Trump administration will terminate temporary status of Nepali immigrants

Nearly 9,000 Nepali immigrants living in the U.S. will lose their temporary protected status (TPS) after the Trump administration determined that the country has sufficiently recovered from a 2015 earthquake to accept their return. Aside from the deaths and injuries caused by the earthquake, said Lisa Parisio, an advocacy attorney for the Catholic Legal Immigration […]

Nepal’s squabble with EU bodes ill for religious freedom

Nepal’s government is still up in arms over claims by the European Union that Christians are not being fairly represented in parliament, while sensitive issues such as the eating of beef or the rights of Hindus and mino-rity groups get much greater consideration. On March 21, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) drew attention to […]

Islamic revival threatens Bangladesh’s identity

Four decades is enough for an independent nation to determine its true identity. However, recent political manoeuvrings, gradually influenced by a small but strong group of Islamist hardliners and lethal rise of radicalism in recent years, show the struggle for a true national identity for Bangladesh is intensifying. Major political parties vie for power by […]

Nun beaten unconscious by Vietnamese gangsters

St Paul de Chartres Sisters in Vietnam were attacked by gang-sters while they were protesting construction of a house on their former land. On May 8, a dozen nuns tried to prevent workers from building a house on the land next to their convent in Hanoi. Workers had taken trucks and tools to the site […]