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Vatican court indicts cardinal and nine others for alleged financial crimes

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who has been caught up in a real estate scandal, speaks to the media a day after he resigned, Rome, Italy, September 25 2020. A Vatican judge on Saturday ordered 10 people, including an Italian cardinal, to stand trial for alleged financial crimes including embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, extortion and abuse […]

Cuba: religious leaders targeted amid nationwide protests

Reports are emerging of religious leaders being among those detained amid unprecedented nationwide protests in Cuba… Protests erupted across the country on 11 July in response to Cuba’s ongoing and severe economic crisis and a record surge in corona-virus cases, before expanding to criticisms of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP)’s decades-long hold on power, crackdown […]

EU Parliament condemns repression of Turkish opposition

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution condemning the ongoing repression the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a formation that unites Kurdish forces and the left by the Turkish government. The signatories of the document stress that this retreat “reveals the dire human rights situation in Turkey and the continued erosion of democracy and the rule […]

Orbán Baits Francis on Islamic Immigration

In a June 20 inter-view with Croatian Catholic weekly Glas Koncila, the Christian politician, who has been disparaged by Pope Francis as a populist and nationalist, dismissed reports of Francis’ refusal to meet him on the Hungary papal visit as “false news.” Attributing media reports first published by faithful Catholic Vaticanist Edward Pentin to “anti-Church and anti-Christian circles,” […]

Modern-Day Martyr: Meet The Self-Made Billionaire Who Is Sacrificing It All For God

In Hong Kong right now, Jimmy Lai is sacrificing all — his fortune and possibly his life — for his God, his fellow man, and for freedom. Lai is a billiona-ire, although he wasn’t always one. Born two years before the Communists defeated the nationalists in China’s civil war, his father fled and his mother […]

Patriot and pioneer: Seo Sang-don, a hero of Korean Church

A bust of Seo Sang-don greets visitors at the office of Daegu Archdiocese in Daegu, the third-largest city in South Korea and a Catholic stronghold. Archbishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil unveiled the bust in 2011 as part of activities to pay tribute to Seo ahead of the 100th anniversary of his death. When Seo died in Seoul on June 30, […]

Pope, recovering well, had ‘severe’ narrowing of his colon

Pope Francis’s recovery from intestinal surgery continues to be “regular and satis-factory,” the Vatican said Wednesday, as it revealed that final examinations showed he had suffered a “severe” narrowing of his colon. The Vatican’s daily update indicated there was no evidence of cancer detected during an examination of the tissue removed Sunday from Francis’ colon. Doctors […]

Experts say Iraqi government struggling to secure Christian future

In March, Pope Francis made history by becoming the first Roman pontiff to visit Iraq. His visit was a sign of solidarity with one of the Middle East’s oldest Christian communities, a small minority in the Muslim-majority country. Some even credit the mere scheduling of the trip as an agent for change in Iraq. After […]