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Fisherpeople storm Vizhinjam port as protests enter 100th day

Thousands of fishermen and wo-men on October 28 stormed the under construction Vizhinjam International Port by the Adani groups, throwing police barricades to the Arabian sea as the protest entered 101 days. The more than 1,500 police force remained calm as the agitated fishing community pulled up the police barricades and threw them into the […]

Islamist rebels kill nun, six others at Catholic hospital in DR Congo

A Catholic nun serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was among the seven people killed October 19 evening when gunmen aligned with the Islamic State attacked a Catholic mission hospital in a raid. Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki and six patients at the hospital were killed Oct. 19 when gunmen with the Allied Democratic […]

Cardinal Parolin to EWTN: Truth must be ‘fearlessly upheld’

The Vatican’s Secretary of State told employees and colla-borators of EWTN this week that the truth must be “fearlessly upheld” with a merciful and list-ening style. Speaking at a dinner in Fra-scati, Italy, Oct. 19, Cardinal Pietro Parolin recalled the words of Mother Angelica, the founder of EWTN, who said, “You can-not go to heaven […]

Macron at Sant’Egidio meeting: Ukraine to decide time, terms of peace with Russia

French President Emmanuel Macron said October 23 it’s up to Ukraine to decide the time and terms of peace with Russia, and he cautioned that the end of war “can’t be the consecration of the law of the strongest.” Speaking at the opening of a three-day peace conference in Rome, Macron said the international community […]

Syriac monastery in Turkey reopens after 100 years

The Monastery of Mor Efrem (St Ephrem) in Mardin, southern Turkey, an area which was once the heartland of Syriac Christia-nity, has once again opened its doors to believers. Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, head of the Syriac Ca-tholic Church, presided over the re-consecration of the building, and celebrated its first Divine Liturgy in a […]

New synod doc highlights challenges, but offers few solutions

On October 27 the Vatican released the working document for the next stage in Pope Francis’s ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality, which offered a global view of what faithful at all levels of the Church believe needs to happen for it to be a true place of inclusion. The document, published Oct. 27 and […]

80 years of Vatican ties with the Republic of China

Oct. 23 marks the 80th anniversary of diplomatic re-lations between the Holy See and the Republic of China, which exists today in Taiwan. As surprising as it may seem to many, in Via della Conciliazione 4 in Rome there is the embassy of the Republic of China. Its red flag with a white sun amid […]

Myanmar blacklisted, Russia side-lined by global watchdog

Myanmar was added on October 21 to a global financial blacklist while Russia was sidelined by the international money-laundering watchdog FATF. The move by the Financial Action Task Force puts Myanmar alongside North Korea and Iran as outcasts of the global financial system. Citing a “continued lack of progress” and the fact the majority of […]