A respected Islamic scholar and Parisian Catholic priest is condemning the recitation of the Koran and Muslim prayer in Paris’ largest church as the “abandonment of evangelization” and the “introduction of the Antichrist.” Fr Guy Pagès’ censure is being echoed by...
An international coalition of Christian leaders, including the president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, appealed for the release of Hong Kong’s Catholic pro-democracy supporter Jimmy Lai and other imprisoned activists as part of a Chinese New Year...
Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on February 9 at the age of 94. He was still serving detention in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, after his arrest in 2006 just two...
A law firm’s report on how abuse cases were handled in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising incriminated retired Pope Benedict XVI, with lawyers accusing him of misconduct in four cases during his tenure as Munich archbishop. Lawyer Martin Pusch of the law firm...
Bishop Eugenio Coter, an Italian who has been a missionary in Bolivia’s Amazon region since 1991, has a great sense of hu-mour: You ask him for a picture of himself, and he sends one in which he is holding a sloth. Coter has been leading the Apostolic Vicariate of...
