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‘Hidden agendas’ behind ethnic conflict in Indian state

Divisive ideologies and agendas are the root cause of an ethnic conflict that has led to violence against Christians and attacks on churches in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, said Indian Archbishop Dominic Lumon of Imphal, the state’s capital city. “Hidden agendas and ideologies contrary to the constitutional and demo-cratic values often infiltrate into the […]

Nigeria: Suspected Fulani militia kill 100 in ongoing attacks

The bodies of Nigerians kill-ed in a May 15-16 terror attack are piled in a mass grave, and will soon be buried. The killings come amid years of violence in northern and central Nigeria, perpetrated by Muslim Fulani herding com-munities and Islamist terrorist groups, the victims are mostly Christian farming villages in the agricultural Middle […]

Most churchgoers don’t believe political divides in church are worsening

Today, Public Religion Re-search Institute (PRRI) released a new survey report finding that church attendance and the im-portance of religion continue to decline among most Americans. “Religion and Congregations in a Time of Social and Political Upheaval,” details the findings of a national survey examining the health of American religious congregations in the wake of […]

Scorsese says answering pope’s call, will make Jesus film

Italo-American director Martin Scorsese told the Jesuits’ international magazine in Rome on May 27 that he had decided to answer Pope Francis’s recent call to show Jesus to the cinema-going public. “I’ve responded to the appeal which the pope made to artists in the only way I know how: imagining and writing a screenplay for […]

Belgian Bp : Our Decision to Bless Same-Sex Unions Is “Not Going Against the Pope”

The bishop of Antwerp, Belgium, said that because Pope Francis has not voiced his opposition specifically to the Flemish bishops’ decision to bless same-sex unions, he has taken that as tacit approval for their action. Bishop Johan Bonny said in a May 17 interview with Katholi-sch.de that he had had “two conversations” with Francis from […]

German dioceses persist with laity role in governance

Two German dioceses are forging ahead with lay participation in Church governance, despite warnings from the Vatican. The dioceses have begun to put reforms proposed by the German synodal path initiative into practice, especially that of involving the laity in governance. In the Diocese of Osnabrück, which has been vacant since the Pope accepted Bishop Franz-Josef Bode’s […]