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Top European cardinals want changes on homosexuality, priestly celibacy‍

Over the past week, two leading European cardinals, both of whom enjoy broad favour with Pope Francis, have made public statements calling for a change in the Catholic Church’s current position on the issues of homosexuality and priestly celibacy. In an interview published in Germany’s Catholic

20% UK Christian women approve men leadership in Church

Just one in five Christian women in the United Kingdom claim females should not be in authority over men in Church leadership. That’s one finding from a new survey conducted by Premier with more than 800 women from across the country. It also found, four out of five Christian women say their Church is a […]

Ukraine: Photo of Jesus statue being packed away goes viral

A photo of a statue of Jesus being removed from a Ukrainian cathedral and put into storage has prompted hundreds of retweets as the world grasps the full implications of the Russian shelling in Ukraine. The tweet about the statue, from the Armenian Cathedral of Lviv, has prompted reactions from believers and non-believers alike regarding […]

Pope Francis: In the name of God, ‘stop this massacre’ in Ukraine

Pope Francis on March 13  called for an end to the “harrowing war” in Ukraine, condemning in particular the “barbarism” of Russia’s reported attacks last week on civilians— including pregnant women and children— in the eastern city of Mariupol. “With an aching heart I add my voice to that of the common people, who implore […]

A million refugees, no refugee camps: Poles open their homes to Ukrainians

It was March 5 , three days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine when a friend called Jerzy Donimirski, a hotel owner from Kraków. “He told me that while half of the country stands in the line at the border to pick up a Ukrainian family, there are people that have nowhere to go, no […]

El Salvador orders arrest of ex-president over killings of Jesuits

A judge in El Salvador order-ed the arrest Friday of former president Alfredo Cristiani for alleged links to the murder of six Jesuit priests and two co-workers by the army during the country’s civil war, prosecutors said. On November 16, 1989, Salvadoran troops from the now-banned Atlacatl battalion shot dead the Jesuits, five of them […]