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Elderly Catholic priest suspended over exorcism in Vietnam

A Catholic diocese in Vietnam has suspended an elderly priest after he joined a banned group of exorcists, disobeying his bishop. Da Lat Diocese annou-nced on Dec. 6 that 72-year-old Father Dominic Nguyen Chu Truyen had been sus-pended from administering sacraments and pastoral care. The diocese’s vicar general, Father John Bosco Hoang Van Chinh, announced […]

Rawalpindi, Christian girl murdered for refusing to marry a young Muslim

Sonia, a 24-year-old Christian girl was killed by a young Muslim Shahzad because she refused to marry him. The killing took place last November 30 and the killer is still at large. Sonia was the daughter of Allah Rakha Masih, who moved 13 years earlier with her family from Faisalabad to Rawalpindi to work as […]

Hong Kong: Anti-Communist Media Mogul Jimmy Lai Facing Decade in Prison

The owner of Hong Kong anti-communist news-paper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, is facing a minimum of a decade in prison after being charged on December 11 with violating the city’s new, and illegal, law against “national security” trespasses. Prosecutors charged Lai, 73, under the law’s “foreign intervention” provision for allegedly having conversations with foreigners about the steep decline […]

Pakistani PM orders probe into forced conversions

Church leaders have thanked Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for ordering an investigation into forced conversions of females from religious minorities. “The PM has ordered an investigation on a case-by-case basis of incidents of forced con-versions of minor girls belonging to minority communities, particularly Christian and Hindu, to find reasons for this issue. Law and rights are […]

Pope Francis proclaims a year dedicated to St Joseph

Marking the 150th anniversary of St Joseph being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed a yearlong celebration dedicated to the foster father of Jesus. In a Dec. 8 apostolic letter,” Patris Corde” (“With a father’s heart”), the Pope said Christians can discover in St Joseph, who often goes unnoticed, “an intercessor, a support […]

Vatican risks going broke slowly, former treasurer Cardinal Pell says

Cardinal Pell, 79, was cleared of sex abuse charges in his native Australia in April. His book “Prison Journal,” published this month, recounts his 13 months in solitary confinement in tiny cells following one of the most divisive trials in the country’s history. In a 90-minute interview with Reuters in his Rome apartment across the […]

100 Arrested in Egypt After Muslim Mob Attacks Coptic Christians over ‘Insulting’ Facebook Post

A mob of Muslim villagers in Egypt attacked a church and assaulted Coptic Christians in retaliation for a Facebook post published by a young Coptic man, which Muslim locals considered insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Egyptian authorities made a number of arrests in the village of al Barsha, located in the Minya governorate, after the […]

Pope Lauds African Rite ‘Invoking Ancestors’

“The Zairean rite suggests a promising way also for the possible elaboration of an Amazonian rite,” writes Francis in his preface for a new book titled Pope Francis and the Roman Missal of the Dioceses of Zaire: A Promising Rite for Other Cultures. The Zairean Mass, sometimes called the “Congolese Mass,” is “until now the only inculturated rite […]