In the course of the year 2018, 40 Missionaries were killed throughout the world, almost double the 23 of the previous year, and they were priests for the most part: 35. After eight consecutive years in which the highest number of Missionaries killed was recorded in...
Christmas should help people lead lives with values like ‘samvedana’ (sensitivity) and ‘karuna’ (compassion), which form the ethos of the Indian civilization, Goa’s Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao said in his annual civic reception address on Dec. 28. “May he lead our...
Fewer than a third of U.S. Catholics rate the honesty and ethical standards of clergy as “very high” or “high,” the latest evidence of the hierarchy’s diminished credibility as a result of the clergy sex abuse scandal, according to a Gallup poll released. The...
In a hotel conference room in Denizli, Turkey, about 60 Iranians sing along to songs praising Jesus mixed with Iranian pop music. When the music stops, American pastor Karl Vickery preaches with the help of a Persian translator. “I’m not famous or rich. But I know...
In 2017, the lowest TFR was in Cyprus, where on average, a woman would give birth to one child throughout her life. Even as the world’s population grew by 87.2 million people annually from 2007 to 2017, 91 nations are not producing enough children to maintain their...
