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According to a 2018 report, over 20 Jesuit priests with a history of sexual abuse lived on Gonzaga University’s campus. University president Thayne McCulloh denied knowledge of the presence of abusive priests.Following 18 months of deliberation…
Read MoreA state statute that “prohibits licensed counselors in treating minors from engaging in ‘conversion therapy’ aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity” does not infringe on religious freedom, a federal district cou…
Read MoreRev. John MacArthur and the Grace Community Church have won a court judgment requiring state and county officials to pay $800,000 in legal fees, after the Evangelical leader won a challenge to the officials’ bid to close down his church because o…
Read More“The abductions of school children present us with the prospects of a traumatized generation of young people,” the Catholic bishops of Nigeria have warned. Their message came after 73 children were seized in the northwestern town of Kaya; t…
Read MoreCatholic communities in Dien Bien province (map) “are not granted permits to buy land to erect chapels, so they have to use their houses as chapels,” according to the report. “Catholic villages are not supplied with power, clean water…
Read More“Every time a Lebanese emigrates, we lose our battle,” said Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, who has led the Maronite Church since 2011. Based in Bkerké, Lebanon, the church (CNEWA profile) is among the Eastern Catholic churches in fu…
Read MoreThe state legislature of North Carolina has approved a measure that would require hospitals to allow clergy members to visit patients regardless of any state of emergency. The bill—obviously a response to Covid lockdown restrictions—allows …
Read MoreThe East African nation of 58.6 million (map) is 57% Christian (28% Protesant, 27% Catholic), 31% Muslim, and 11% ethnic religionist.“We have prayed and asked God to bring us the vaccine against the coronavirus and now it has been found, but we r…
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Lorne Park Baptist Church in Mississauga, Ontario, has fired Rev. Junia Joplin after he announced his transitioning from a male to a female. The congregants voted to terminate his employment, the majority for theological reasons. The chair of the church’s executive council stated that Joplin was offered “a fair severance.” Nonetheless, he is suing for […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 2, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Freed: Msgr. Julius Agbortoko Abbor, vicar general of Cameroon’s Mamfe diocese. / Diocese of Mamfe.
Mamfe, Cameroon, Sep 2, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
A Catholic diocese announced on Wednesday that kidnappers had freed a priest seized in Cameroon’s …
In 2014 Janet and I did the crazy thing of flying to Iraq with our film crew to shoot the documentary on Abraham. While we were there ISIS took over Faluja and was moving south. It was a bit unnerving, but I always wanted to visit biblical Iraq – which Abraham knew as Ur of […]
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Read MoreWASHINGTON — For Labor Day, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, released a statement observing that there are both encouraging si…
Read MoreReading I Col 1:9-14
Brothers and sisters:
From the day we heard about you, we do not cease praying for you
and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will
through all spiritual wisdom and understanding
to walk in a…
“I take it as an act of charity to allow their burial in our Roman Catholic cemeteries during these times of pandemic,” said Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu.
Read MoreThe leaders of religious groups dedicated to the traditional liturgy have issued a statement asking for “a humane, personal, trusting dialogue, far from ideologies or the coldness of administrative decrees.”
Read MoreThe Vatican has released an English translation of the Pope’s 90-interview with the Spanish radio station COPE.In the wide-ranging interview—excerpts of which were previously released—Pope Francis dismissed resignation rumors and discussed Afgha…
Read MorePresident Joe Biden reacted angrily when the US Supreme Court declined to block the implementation of a Texas law providing penalties for abortion if the baby’s heartbeat can be detected. The White House issued a statement denouncing the law as &…
Read MoreCardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Texas, has announced new restrictions on the use of the traditional liturgy, in response to Traditionis Custodes. The cardinal said that two parishes would continue to host the Latin Mass—in one case …
Read More“We are living on the edge of huge historical change,” writes Archbishop Dermot Farrell. “Our common home, indeed our only home—this planet—is under threat. Our lifestyles, and the economies which support them are contributing signif…
Read More“The moral dimension of the ecological crisis demands that each of us cultivate an ecological conscience, one that enables us to see clearly, judge rightly, and act ethically when it comes to the care of our common home,” the chairmen of tw…
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