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Three-time Olympian shares her conversion story

Today, Dominique Dawes is a three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist. But back in 1996, she was a teenage girl feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. “Before the 1996 Olympic games, all of us, we were known as the Magnificent Seven being the first women’s team to win gold. And I felt, […]

Vatican considering sale of London property at heart of financial scandal

The Vatican is thinking about selling the London property at the centre of a financial scandal at the Secretariat of State, which lost an estimated $100 million in the building’s purchase. Bloom-berg reported this week that the Vatican is considering selling the former car showroom of the Har-rods department store, located at 60 Sloane Avenue […]

Police fired tear gas at Catholic Mass in Haiti

Police in Haiti reportedly fired tear gas as dozens were participating in a “Mass for the freedom of Haiti” led by Catholic bishops on April 15 as part of an ongoing national protest against recent kidnappings of priests and others in the Caribbean nation. Nearly a dozen Catholic bishops and dozens of people were attending […]

Chinese police ban pastor from receiving Christian books

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police and state security officers have prohibited a pastor from having Christian books. According to religious freedom charity China Aid, police turned up at the home of a rural minister in Linyi, Shandong Province. They demanded that he allow them to check his mobile phone. After learning that the pastor had […]

23,000 Christians reported returning to Iraq after Pope’s visit

Thousands of families are said to be returning to Iraq, just a few years after the towns were taken over by ISIS and Christians killed. Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq has apparently given hope to Iraqi Christians returning to their homeland after fleeing years of violence. Qaraqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, is Iraq’s largest Catholic […]

Vatican punishes Polish churchmen for alleged abuse cover-up

The Vatican said March 29 that it is punishing a retired Polish archbishop and a bishop for their alleged roles in covering up sexual abuse committed by other clergymen. Former Gdansk Archbishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz and former Bishop Edward Janiak of Kalisz have also been forbidden from living in their former dioceses or participating in […]

Chinese Christians honour ancestors at Easter

As the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday approached, parishioners of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Xiantao city in China’s Hebei province were alarmed by the sounds of fireworks and firecrackers. Xiantao, some 100 kilometres from provincial capital Wuhan, where the first human infections from the deadly novel coronavirus were detected in late 2019, was mostly […]

US Catholics must do more to reject anti-Asian discrimination

In 2018, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops published “Open Wide Our Hearts: An Enduring Call to Love.” The pastoral letter was the first collective bishops’ statement on racism in almost 40 years and describes the discrimination against Latinos, African Americans and Native Americans. It makes no mention of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Since […]