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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 […]

67% “religious” in UK have questioned beliefs: Survey

After just over a year of lockdown, a new study has found the coronavirus pandemic has raised a host of questions – particularly around belief in God, religious practice and death. To mark the launch of Season 3 of The Big Conversation – a series of video debates featuring some of the biggest intellectual thinkers […]

Italy sees worst gap between births, deaths since 1918 Spanish Flu

With Italy already facing a diminishing population, low birth rates and fewer religious and civil marriages, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted those numbers for 2020, according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics. In fact, it said, Italy set new records in 2020 with the lowest number of births since its unification in 1871, the […]

Priest, six others killed by armed gunmen at Nigerian parish

Father Ferdinand Fanen Ngugban and six others died of gunshot wounds after armed gunmen invaded the grounds of St. Paul Parish in Ayetwar March 30, said the Diocese of Katsina-Ala. “After celebrating Mass and while he prepared to leave for the chrism Mass at St Gerald Majella Catholic Cathedral, Katsina-Ala, to renew his priestly vows […]

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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