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NICARAGUAN POET-PRIEST CARDENAL LEAVES HOSPITAL, THANKS POPE

Renowned Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal was released from a hospital on February 20 two weeks after he entered for treatment for an infection that provoked other ailments. Luz Marina Acosta, assistant to the 94-year-old Cardenal, told The Associated Press that he is at home and off antibiotics and oxygen. “Although he is always […]

CHRISTIAN BEHEADED IN INDIA’S ODISHA STATE

A Christian man has been found virtually beheaded in an interior village of India’s Odisha State in what family members and many others believe was an anti-Christian attack. They dismiss a police claim that he was killed by politically motivated Maoist rebels. The body of 40-year-old Anant Ram Gand, father of four girls and a […]

GUJARAT’S CHRISTIANS RALLY FOR PEACE

Over February 17-18, thousands of Christians participated in peace rallies in Ahmedabad, organised by various churches in support of the martyrs of the Pulwama terror attack. This is probably the first time that the Christian community in Gujarat, which usually keeps a low profile and stays away from political matters, organised a rally on an […]

PROTECTION OF MINORS: MEETING OF ABUSE VICTIMS IN VATICAN

The ad interim Director of the Vatican Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, issues a statement confirming a meeting that took place in the Vatican  between the organizing committee of the “Protection of Minors in the Church” Meeting and several victims of abuse.”As was announced during the course of the Press Conference on 18 February in the […]

GERMAN POLITICIANS ALARMED BY RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN FRANCE

Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in an interview with the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper he’s concerned about a sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France.” The anti-Semitic incidents in France are disturbing and frightening for the Jewish community in Germany also,” Schuster said. France is not the […]

Philippine Bishop: Duterte’s drug war is ‘illegal, immoral and anti-poor’

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines said his government’s controversial war on drugs is really a war against the country’s poor. “There is no war against illegal drugs, because the supply is not being stopped. If they are really after illegal drugs, they would go after the big people, the manufacturers, the smugglers, the suppliers. […]

FOR CARD SAKO, THE POPE’S VISIT TO THE UAE BRINGS A MESSAGE AGAINST HATRED, VIOLENCE AND PERSECUTION

Anti-Christian persecution in the Middle East is a major concern, said Pope Francis in Angelus before leaving for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he remained, something Chaldean Patriarch Card Louis Raphael Sako stressed as he spoke about the first papal visit to a Gulf State. With persecution in Iraq, Syria and Yemen in his […]

CASTE-AWAY: DALITS SEEK ESCAPE THROUGH CONVERSION IN NEPAL

The Christian community in Nepal has not been spared the wrath of society’s caste based inequality, even though bottom-rung Dalits are increasingly turning to Christianity as a means to escape their fate. Religious conversions are illegal in Nepal but the numbers suggest many consider it a risk worth taking as the “untouchables” are among the […]