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BANGLADESH CHURCH SETS PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT DECADE

The Catholic Church in Bangladesh plans to treat the welfare of families and poverty, as well as environmental protection and migrant welfare, as pastoral priorities in the next decade. New guidelines state that such an approach would “give witness” to the Church in the low-lying nation. A 12-point ‘mission statement’ was issued at the end […]

BURMA CARDINAL: THE ‘WAR’ ON THE KACHIN IS BEING OVERLOOKED

Cardinal Charles Bo, Burma’s most senior churchman, has said the military are continuing to persecute ethnic Kachin, a predominantly Christian group in a conflict- torn part of the country. Speaking on September 1 at a peace forum in South Korea, Cardinal Bo said the suffering the Rohingya have endured has captured the world’s attention. He […]

AUSTRALIAN BISHOPS, RELIGIOUS SAY SEAL OF CONFESSION IS SACRED

Australia’s Catholic bishops and religious orders, responding to recommendations from the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, accepted 98 percentage of its suggestions, but said they could not accept recommendations that would violate the seal of confession. Support independent Catholic journalism. Become an NCR For- ward member for $5 a month. “We […]

GERMAN CHURCH LEADERS CONDEMN RACISM AND ‘MIGRANT-BASHING’ IN CHEMNITZ

The clashes between right- wing demonstrators and antifascist protesters in the eastern German city of Chemnitz in Saxony, where a German with Cuban roots was stabbed to death by an Iraqi and a Syrian on 27 August, have been sharply condemned by church leaders in Germany. The Catholic Church would always “clearly reject” racism and […]

WORLD LEADERS, FAITH GROUPS GATHER FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT

In an effort to move beyond promises and pledges, leaders from around the world have joined the faith community and others in San Francisco to put on display actions under way to address the global threat of climate change, and to mobilize even more. The three-day Global Climate Action Summit officially opened Sept. 12, and […]

SPOKESMAN OF THE EPISCOPATE: EVERY FIFTH DIOCESAN PRIEST IN POLAND MURDERED DURING WORLD WAR II

Every fifth diocesan priest
was murdered in Poland occupied by the Germans and Russians.
Four Polish bishops were killed
in the concentration camps, and
nearly half of the Roman Catholic dioceses were deprived of
diocesan bishops. It was also a
war with religion – said the spokesman of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Fr Pawe B Rytel- Andrianik, on the 79th anniversary […]

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY CALLS FOR “FUNDAMENTAL REFORM” OF BRITAIN’S ECONOMY

  A major research paper, co- authored by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, says that Britain’s economy “is not working for millions of people and needs fundamental reform.” The report, Prosperity and Justice, argues that “a fair economy is a strong economy” and says that “prosperity and justice can, and must, go hand- in-hand.” […]

ENGLISH ARCHBISHOP: SCANDALS AND COVER- UPS MEAN CATHOLICS MUST ‘SHOUT LOUDER’

Christians must still proclaim the Gospel, even in the face of the current scandals and cover- ups, according to the Archbishop of Liverpool. Archbishop Malcolm McMahon was preaching in Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral at the concluding Mass of the Adoremus Eucharistic Congress, which took place in the city on August 7-9. “As a Christian community we […]