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Septuagenarian nun disarms man stabbing priest

A 72-year-old Catholic nun has been praised for her “extra-ordinary courage” after she sought to disarm a man stabbing a priest at a Catholic church in Nice, south-eastern France. Sister Marie-Claude reportedly intervened after a 31-year-old man entered the Saint-Pierre d’Arene church before Sunday Mass on April 24 and repeatedly stabbed Father Krzysztof Rudziñski. She […]

Priest dies from stabbing on seaside promenade in Egypt

A knife-wielding man mortally wounded a Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside promenade in Alexandria on April 7 evening, Egypt’s interior ministry said. The ministry said the priest died while being treated for his wounds. It said the suspected attacker had been arrested. The priest was identified by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate […]

Pope receives Hungary’s P.M. : focus on Ukrainian refugees

Pope Francis spent 40 minutes with Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, whom he received in audience on April 21 morning. The premier arrived at the Vatican shortly before 11 am, accompanied by his wife and entourage, and did not meet with other Vatican authorities due to the private nature of his visit. Orbán is on his […]

26 Million Americans Stopped Reading the Bible Regularly During COVID-19

When researchers for the American Bible Society’s annual State of the Bible report saw this year’s survey statistics, they found it hard to believe the results. The data said roughly 26 million people had mostly or completely stopped reading the Bible in the last year. “We reviewed our calculations. We double-checked our math and ran the numbers […]

Christians want Easter declared public holiday in Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Christian Association (BCA) has urged authorities not to allow educational institutions to hold examinations on Easter Sunday. The organization also called on the government to declare Easter a public holiday. In a press statement on April 4, BCA president Nirmol Rozario and secretary Hemanta Corraya called on educational institutions not to hold examinations […]

Hindu-Christian row mars rise of Naga woman to Indian parliament

Religion is back in business in India’s Nagaland state. The strongly perceived Christian identity of the indigenous Na-gas is making headlines. Nagaland is a Christian and tribal-dominated province in the northeast where guerrillas are still seeking independence. S. Phangnon Konyak, a Naga Christian woman who heads the local women’s wing of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata […]

Appeals filed against Bishop Mulakkal’s acquittal

The January 14 acquittal of Bishop Franco Mulakkal in a rape case involving a Catholic sister has been challenged in an appellate court by both the accuser and the prosecution. Bishop Mulakkal confirms that the government and the nun have appealed to the high court against his acquittal. “Yes. It is their right. We respect […]

Nun’s murderer admits killing another elderly nun

The man held in connection with the murder of a 69-year-old nun in Pala allegedly had killed another elderly nun at a convent near Erattupetta in April this year, police said on Tuesday. Satheesh Babu, who has been remanded in police custody for the probe into the murder of Sister Amala in Lisieux Carmel Convent […]