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Katalin Novák resigns as president of Hungary

Katalin Novák resigned as president of Hungary on February 10 amid protests over her decision to pardon a man last year who had been convicted of hiding a string of child sexual abuses in a state-run children’s home. “I issued a pardon that caused bewilderment and unrest for many people,” Novák said in a television […]

Pope Francis Rebellion Grows as 90 Catholic Figures Sign Scathing Letter

A group of 90 Catholic clergy-men, scholars and authors have published a joint letter to “all Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church,” urging them to oppose a Vatican document approved by Pope Francis that allows priests to bless same-sex unions for the first time. In the letter, the Catholic conservatives say that Fiducia Supplicans, […]

African cardinal says ‘Fiducia’ has discredited synod on synodality

An African cardinal who recently led the continent’s bishops in rejecting blessings for same-sex couples has now lashed out at the timing of the Vatican document that opened the door to such a move, calling it “damaging” to the synodal process convened by Pope Francis. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa in the Democratic Re-public of […]

Pope Francis:‘Without liturgical reform there is no reform of the Church’

Pope Francis met with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on February 8 morning to discuss the importance of liturgical re-form as a core feature of the broader “renewal of the Church.” The address comes as the dicastery is meeting for its annual plenary assembly, which is […]

Survey finds most U.S. orders didn’t have a single member take perpetual vows in 2023

Of the 508 American religious communities which responded to a new survey on the number of men and women who professed perpetual vows in 2023, a total of 438, representing 87 percent, reported that they didn’t have a single member who did so, and only 23 reported that they had more than one. That tally […]

Savannakhet, anti-Christian persecutions: houses destroyed, Bibles burned

Christians still in the crosshairs in Laos: some village leaders and inhabitants in the south of the country broke into a private home to prevent several families who had gathered inside from holding a celebration on 4th Feb., as part of Sunday services. This is what Radio Free Asia (Rfa) reports , relaunching the stories […]

Voting in Pakistan Bishop Shukardin: ‘Christians without representation’

Pakistan goes to the polls to-morrow for very delicate general elections. Today’s election eve was also marked by serious violence, with two attacks in which 28 people died and at least 40 others were injured in Pishin and Qila Saifullah, in the province of Baluchistan. While from prison, former Prime Minister Imran Khan had his […]

New Report Details Communist Party Takeover Of Religion in Hong Kong

The Committee for Free-dom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation has today (30th January 2024) launched a ma-jor new report detailing the collapse of religious freedom in Hong Kong. The report, titled “Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communi-ties”, authored by the CFHK Foundation’s Policy and Advocacy Coordinator Frances Hui, is now available to […]