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Chinese Christians denied passports amid pandemic

Christians in eastern China who wish to travel abroad for various reasons including emigration and studies are facing hard times as authorities have denied them passports, citing travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Christians from several families in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces said immigration officials questioned the purpose of their passport applications and later […]

Pope Francis highlights danger of staid liturgies that ‘deny Vatican Council II’

Pope Francis is pushed in a wheelchair by his aide, Sandro Mariotti, as he leaves an audience with students and professors of Rome’s Pontifical Institute of Liturgy at St. Anselm, May 7 at the Vatican. The Pope said that the celebration of the liturgy and the study of it should lead to greater unity in […]

Pope authorizes non-clerics to be Major Superiors in certain cases

Pope Francis has authorised the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated and Societies of Apostolic Life to grant dispensations that would allow non-clerics to hold the office of Major Superior in some cases. The Holy Father did so in a rescript promulgated on May 25, concerning the possibility of a dispensation from Canon 588 §2 of […]

20 Christians Killed by ISIS in Nigeria

ISIS extremists executed 20 Nigerian Christians in a brutal knife attack to “avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East.” The Islamic State posted footage of their executions in a vile warning to Nigerians, that they are there, are expanding their territory, and have the intent of imposing a draconian and barbaric […]

Pope Francis: ‘Ours is the age of fake news, collective superstitions, and pseudo-scientific truths’

Pope Francis said on May 25  that Catholics today are living in an “age of fake news, collective superstitions, and pseudo-scientific truths.” Reflecting on the Book of Ecclesiastes at his general audience on May 25, the Pope suggested that the 21st century was marked not only by scientific knowledge but also what he called a […]

Pope Francis: Catholic schools should not be Christian in name only

Pope Francis said May 21  that Catholic schools should not be Christian in name only, but in fact. Speaking to the De La Salle Christian Brothers, the Pope underlined that Christians educators must first of all be witnesses to the Gospel. “The Christian educator, in the school of Christ, is first of all a witness, […]

Bishop Flores on Texas elementary school shooting: ‘Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem’

Bishop Daniel Flores said on May 25 that he was sick of hearing people say that “guns aren’t the problem” after a gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. “We sacralize death’s instruments and then are surprised that death uses them,” the bishop of Brownsville, Texas, wrote on […]

Catholic cathedral attacked in Nigeria after arrests over ‘blasphemy’ killing

A mob has attacked a Catholic cathedral in Nigeria amid protests demanding the release of two suspects in the killing of a Christian student. The Diocese of Sokoto said in a statement that youths targeted Holy Family Catholic Cathedral in Sokoto, north-west Nigeria, after police arrested two students in connection with the murder of Deborah […]