Geneva residents on February 10 voted for a controversial new “secularism law,” which will among other things ban elected officials and public employees from wearing visible religious symbols. More than 55% voters in the Swiss canton backed the law, final results...
The Chaldean Patriarch, Card Louis Raphael Sako, issued a pastoral letter on the “originality and authenticity” of the “renewal” of the Chaldean Church, which was sent to AsiaNews for wider circulation. In it, the prelate notes that the Church must “give answers” to...
Faced with a plummeting population, rising labour shortages and widespread emigration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has long taken an unconventional approach to increasing the size and productivity of Hungary’s work force. He offered university scholarships...
A church service that has been performed continuously for 96 days has come to an end after the Dutch government agreed to pardon a family the pastors were shielding from deportation as part of a wider amnesty. Sasun Tamrazyan, his wife Anousche and their children...
The Pope’s former doctrinal chief has published a “Manifesto of Faith” in which he warns of the “fraud of Antichrist” being perpetrated by those who fail to teach the faith correctly. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
