After closing more than 700 churches and some mosques in March, Rwandan government officials have moved to institute guidelines for how faith groups operate in the majority-Christian East African country. Rwanda’s minister in the office of the president has brought to...
A bill has been introduced in the Italian parliament which would require the visible display of crucifixes in public buildings, Italian news magazine L’Espresso reported on July 23. The bill, “Dispositions concerning the display of the crucifix in schools and in...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has overseen the reunification of feuding wings of the one of the world’s oldest Christian churches, his top aide said on July 27. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church split in 1991 over the naming of a new patriarch after the...
The Google ‘doodle’ depicts Belgian priest and astronomer Fr Georges Lemaître Google’s “doodle” for, July 18 celebrated the 124th birthday of the Belgian priest who formulated the Big Bang theory. Fr Georges Lemaître was professor of physics at the Catholic University...
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill led some 100,000 people in a nigh time procession on July17 to mark 100 years since the Bolsheviks murdered tsar Nicholas II and his family, amid a simmering conflict between the state and the Church over their remains. The procession...
