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Analysis: Pope Francis’ new exhortation ‘Christus Vivit’

Laphidil Oppong Twumasi, a youth leader from Ghana, reads Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “Christus Vivit” (Christ Lives), during a news conference for its presentation at the Vatican on April 2, 2019 As a young Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio taught literature to a group of rowdy, hormonal teenage boys at a private school in Argentina who, according […]

Trump’s border wall will make US a “prisoner” of isolation, pope says

President Donald Trump’s decision to build an anti-immigrant wall will leave the United States alone and a “prisoner” of its own isolation, according to Pope Francis in his latest wide-ranging interview, this time with a Spanish journalist. “He who raises a wall ends up a prisoner of the wall he erected,” the Pope said. “That’s […]

German bishops publish ‘10 theses on climate protection’

The German Bishops’ Conference on April 3, 2019 has published a contribution to climate policy discussion as a central social challenge in the field of the creation of creation. The expert text “Ten theses on climate protection. A discussion contribution “is based on socio-ethical, economic, natural and juris prudential considerations and contains solutions. Based on […]

In extraordinary peace gesture Pope kisses feet of South Sudan’s leaders

For five years they were at war with each other in a bloody conflict that has killed 400,000, left six million starving, four million displaced from their homes and a devastated economy. On 11 April 2019, the President of South Sudan, SalvaKiir, and his former vice-president Riek Machar sat together on a sofa in the […]

Pope Benedict Breaks 6 Years Silence To Comment On Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has broken six years of relative silence with the release of an outspoken letter on the clergy sex abuse scandal. Benedict’s analysis differs significantly from that of his successor, Pope Francis, and thus leaves the world’s Catholics with contrasting papal perspectives on the greatest crisis facing Roman Catholicism today. In his […]

750,000 abortions performed in Russia annually, only one-fifth for medical reasons

Moscow on April 3, Interfax-Only 20% of all abortions in Russia are performed due to health problems, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said. “I have to say that over 750,000 terminations of pregnancy are registered annually, and only a fifth of them is performed for medical reasons,” Golikova said at a parliamentary hour meeting […]

Pope changes canon law for religious who desert community

Pope Francis has amended Canon Law to create a new mechanism for dismissing a religious who has deserted their community. Under the new law, promulgated by the Pope in an apostolic letter issued “motu-proprio,” superiors can declare a member dismissed ipso facto if they have been illicitly absent from the community for more than a […]

Hagia Sophia might be reverted to a mosque, Erdoðan says

President Recep Tayyip Erdodan on March 24 voiced the possibility of reverting the Hagia Sophia, which has been used as a museum since 1935 and is considered one of the world’s wonders, to a mosque. “This is not unlikely. We might even change its name to Ayasofya Mosque,” Erdodan said during a live interview with […]

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Pope To Syro-malabar Faithful: Unity Is A Duty

The Goa Bench Of The Bombay High Court Grants Relief For Protestant Pastor, Wife