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The Catholic who could succeed Angela Merkel

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, having just formed her fourth government, has established herself as one of Europe’s longest-serving leaders. But she enters her new term of office in a weakened position, and speculation has been turning to her possible successors. In last year’s general election Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) polled the lowest share […]

Monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn unveiled in Moscow

At a ceremony on Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new monument of Solzhenitsyn on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth on 11 December 2018. The bronze monument sitting on a granite pedestal was designed by National Artist of Russia Andrei Kovalchuk. His project won the architecture and sculpture […]

New survey documents how people deal with grief at Christmas

For most people, Christmas is a joyous time with family and friends; but this joy can turn to grief when those family and friends have died. How people deal with this sadness was the focus of a survey published Dec. 10 from St Mary’s University, Twickenham, that asked 2000 people across the United Kingdom what […]

Pope: the bishop must be an ‘administrator of God’, not of goods, of power

The bishop must be an ‘administrator of God,’ not of goods, of power, “humble, meek, servant, not prince.” Only in this way can we put order in the Church which “ has never been born perfectly in order,” Pope Francis said at Mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta, inspired by the passage from Paul’s […]

Helping the poor is not a papal fad but a duty, says pope

As the rich get richer, the increasing misery and cries of the poor are ignored every day, Pope Francis said. Christians cannot stand with arms “folded in indifference” or thrown up in the air in helpless resignation, he said in his homily on Nov. 18, the World Day of the Poor. “As believers, we must […]

Pope’s abuse summit opens new chapter on abuse

Pope Francis is convinced that the scourge of abuse is a problem that does not pertain just to a single country. Pope Francis’ crunch summit on child protection in February is poised to open a new chapter in the Church’s response to the clerical sexual abuse scandal, ending what has been a haphazard and inconsistent […]

‘His father is Boko Haram, but he is still my child’

“The evening of August 21, 2014 I was relaxing with my two children–Zachariah (5) and Jonathan (18 months), in front of our house in Baga, Borno State. I was pregnant at the time. We suddenly heard gunshots and explosions. “We all knew immediately that it was Boko Haram, and ran in different directions. They killed […]

Almost 300 million Christians persecuted around world

Christians continue to be the most persecuted religious group, according to a report by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Almost 300 million Christians, or one out of seven Christians in the world, live in a country where they face violence, arrest and human rights violations. Some 61% of the world’s population live in […]

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