Three men in the town of Karaj were sentenced on 22 August to five years in prison for propaganda against the state after they converted to Christia-nity from Islam. The sentence was later reduced to three years on appeal. In the meantime, they were released on bail...
Bp Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, southern Ger-many, presented the text on a website launched on Sept. 3, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner. In an introduction to the website, the bishop wrote: “We are joining in the Synodal Way, but we are...
Pope Francis has warned the threat of anti-Semitism is “still lurking” in Europe, during a brief trip to Hungary. He was speaking after meeting Hungary’s populist and anti-immigrant PM Viktor Orban, with whom he has stark differences on the issue of refugees. Mr Orban...
Pope Francis told Slovakia’s Catholics on September 13 that the Church should respond to secularization with the “creativity of the Gospel,” not “a defensive Catholicism.” Speaking to clergy and lay people in St. Martin’s Cathedral in the capital, Bratislava, on Sept....
Barnabite priest Fr. Giovanni Scalese, ecclesiastical superior of the Catholic mission Sui Iuris in Afghanistan, told la Repu-bblica in late August how he helped 14 disabled children and 5 nuns escape from the embattled city of Kabul. Father Scalese spoke to the...
