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Catholics caution Philippine govt against Chinese aid

Catholics in Bacolod Diocese in the Visayas region have cautioned the Philippine government against accepting China’s aid to help victims of Super Typhoon Rai. Chinese ambassador Huang Xilian on December 22 offered US$1 million as cash aid and 4,725 tons of rice to the typhoon-hit Southeast Asian country. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte accepted the aid […]

Indian authorities to block foreign funding for Mother Teresa’s charity

For decades, the Christian congregation founded by Mother Teresa in an Indian slum was seen by supporters as a symbol of selfless giving and a magnet for donations from around the world. But to India’s Hindu right wing, it was a target of their ire — and a hotbed, some alleged, for the conversion of […]

Vatican agency reveals number of missionaries murdered around the world during 2021

22 Catholic missionaries were killed around the world in 2021, half of them in Africa, according to a report released by the Fides News Agency and distributed Thursday by the Vatican press office. Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, reported that of the 22 missionaries killed in 2021, 13 […]

In speech to Curia, pope warns against worldly attachments, including in the liturgy

To close a year in which he put limits on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, Pope Francis warned against the temptations of pride, spiritual worldliness, and attachment to superficial reassurances, including liturgical preferences. In his Dec. 23 speech to members of the Roman Curia, the Pope centred on the biblical figure of Naaman […]

More Americans Left Religion During the Pandemic

Religious affiliation in the U.S. has continued to fall during the pandemic, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Centre. The percentage of Americans who identify as Christians now stands at 63%, down from 65% in 2019 and from 78% in 2007. Meanwhile, 29% of Americans now identify as having no religion, up […]

Abducting Christian girls for marriage is ‘genocidal’, pontifical charity says

Across the world, girls and young women from Christian families are forced into sexual slavery and religious conversion. This is one of the most underreported examples of the persecution of Christians, usually in Muslim-majority countries with significant Christian popu-lations, such as Egypt and Paki-stan. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) documented first-hand accounts of […]

Report IDs five European nations with increasing anti-Christian violence

Catholics are facing soaring levels of discrimination in some of the most influential countries in Europe, a new report said. The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance Against Christians in Europe identified the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden as the five countries most affected by a “rising phenomenon” of harassment and violence toward Christians. “These […]

Tutu a ‘beacon of hope’ during the ‘dark days of apartheid,’ South African bishop says

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was “a beacon of hope during the bleak days of apartheid,” according to Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp and the liaison Bishop for justice and peace at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference. The Anglican prelate died on Sunday at the age of 90. A representative of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP […]