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India’s Christians to back supportive parties in polls

Six months ahead of elections in three northern Indian states, Christian leaders have pledged to vote for poli-tical parties assuring protection of their communities from discrimination and abuse. Ecumenical Christian group Sarva Isai Mahasangh (All Christian Forum) has resolved not to support parties in upcoming federal and state elections that work against religious minorities. Madhya […]

Pope: if it is not ‘feminine’, the Church becomes a ‘church for old bachelors’

“The Church is a woman” and if she lacks this identity she becomes “a charity association or a football team;” when “it is a male Church,” it becomes “a Church of old bachelors,” “incapable of love, incapable of fecundity,” said Pope Francis at Mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta, on the day dedicated to […]

German President: Catholic Church should ‘share’ Communion with Protestants

The President of Ger-many has called for the Catholic Church to allow Protestants to receive Communion. Speaking at Katholikentag, a major conference for German-speaking Catholics in Münster, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: “Let us seek ways of expressing the common Christian faith by sharing in the Last Supper and Communion. I am sure: Thousands of Christians in […]

Pope Paul VI prepared ‘resignation letter’

Pope Paul VI wraps his cape around a small boy who has just presented him a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the parish children Photograph: S&G Barratts/EMPICS/PA Archive 13 years before his death, Blessed Paul VI wrote that he should be allowed to resign if he became too ill to carry on Commenting on the letter, […]

Chile’s bishops offer to resign en masse

Every Chilean bishop has offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a series of closed-door meetings with all 34 bishops at the Vatican, to discuss the abuse crisis in the country. The dramatic announcement followed the leaking of a 10-page letter to television channel T13, reportedly handed to the bishops at the start of discussions, […]

Bishops warn of ‘growing genocide’ in Cameroon

“They are hunting us,” murmurs a secondary school teacher, turning his back to the camera and asking not to be named. “The Cameroon government security forces were entering villages and killing unarmed people. Bodies have been found in forests, they used every method and means to kill. It’s a huge number of fatalities.” Nearly 26,000 […]

Irish abortion referendum : Landslide win for pro-choice

Voters in Ireland have opted to remove the right to life of the unborn from the country’s constitution, paving the way for abortion on demand up to 12 weeks. With votes counted from 30 of Ireland’s 40 constituencies, results from the nationwide referendum showed that 67.3% of citizens opted to remove the Eighth Amendment from […]

Pope creates 14 new cardinals in June

Pope Francis announced he would make 14 new cardinals June 29, giving the red cardinal’s hat to the papal almoner, the Iraq-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church and the arch-bishop of Karachi, Pakistan, among others. Announcing his choices May 20, the Pope said that coming from 11 nations, the new cardi-nals “express the universality […]