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Don’t let war force you from Holy Land, Franciscan leader tells friars
April 20, 2024
ROME – The leader of the worldwide Franciscan order, has appealed to his fellow Franciscans to stay put in the Holy Land despite rising tensions and threats to physical safety due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas on the Gaza Strip. Speaking in an interview with the Franciscan-run Custodia magazine, Father Massimo Fusarelli said after
Terrorists murder catechist in Burkina Faso
April 20, 2024
A catechist has been abducted and killed by suspected terrorists in Fada N’gourma, east Burkina Faso. Edouard Yougbare’s lifeless body was discovered in Saatenga parish yesterday, according to local reports received by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). John Pontifex of ACN (UK) said: “Edouard gave his life on the front line
Pope reforms Vatican legal system following ‘trial of the century’
April 20, 2024
Pope Francis has issued a new decree which creates a system of civil liability for judges and prosecutors parallels one which has existed in Italy since 1988. Among other things, the new system theoretically could be used by one or more of the nine defendants in the Vatican’s recent “trial of the century,” which pivoted
Finnish MP to stand trial for third time for tweeting Bible verse
April 19, 2024
Former government minister and sitting Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen will stand trial a third time for her Bible-verse tweet, the Supreme Court of Finland has confirmed. The State prosecutor appealed the case despite the Christian grandmother of 11 being acquitted unanimously of “hate speech” charges before both the Helsinki District Court, and the Court of
Twenty-nine Nigerian Christians slaughtered in three-day pogrom
April 19, 2024
Suspected Fulani Islamist militants carried out on a three-day massacre in Pankshin Diocese in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, killing 29 Christians, injuring a further two, and burning down churches and houses. The attacks took place across the villages of Kopnanle, Mandung, Bokkos Town and the Mbar district of Bokkos. Speaking to Aid to the Church in
No justice for Pakistan’s Christians eight months after atrocity, British Parliament told
April 19, 2024
THE UK Parliament has heard from a leading Catholic charity how the victims of the worst atrocity against Christians in Pakistan are still anxiously waiting for justice eight months on. The address from John Pontifex of Aid to the Church in Need UK, the Catholic charity for persecuted Christians, was given at a panel discussion
INTERVIEW: George Farmer on his Catholic Faith and being married to a US media star
April 18, 2024
I met George Farmer, entrepreneur, former CEO of Parler, and husband to US media personality and commentator Candace Owens, after the Good Friday Passion at the Brompton Oratory. We were introduced through mutual friends, and he was keen to meet in person to discuss a potential interview. “I have prayed on it, and I am
Young women becoming increasingly irreligious in US
April 18, 2024
Young women are leaving US Churches in “unprecedented numbers”, according to a new survey from the American Enterprise Institute. It demonstrates, argues Carmel Richardson in The American Conservative, what some had already begun to speculate: that as young women move politically left as a group, they also become more irreligious. AEI’s survey of some 5,500 Americans of
CAFOD blames IMF’s ‘devastating’ role in global debt crisis
April 18, 2024
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank hold their Spring meeting, a leading Catholic international aid group says the world is sinking “deeper into a global sovereign debt crisis”. The world’s two leading financial behemoths are meeting in Washington, DC, from 15-20 April. But while their respective representatives and experts meet and
‘A daring raid deep inside the monarchy’: Netflix dramatisation of Prince Andrew’s infamous interview
April 18, 2024
Last month Netflix aired its latest production to do with the British royal family; no, not another series of The Crown, but a drama “based on real events, fictionalised for dramatic purposes” – plus ca change, then – of the bombshell Newsnight interview Emily Maitlis famously conducted with Prince Andrew on 16 November 2019, concerning his long friendship
Italian mother dies after refusing cancer treatment to save her unborn child
April 18, 2024
At the funeral this week of Italian mother Azzurra Carnelos, who died last week after refusing cancer treatment in order to save the life of her unborn son, she was hailed for her courageous sacrifice and for her love of life. Speaking at Carnelos’s 17 April funeral, Father Massimo Rocchi, director of the Brandolini Rota
New Catholic Lectionary for British churches arriving this Advent following approval by Vatican
April 18, 2024
A new Lectionary will come into use in parishes in England, Wales and Scotland from Advent 2024. The Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments gave its seal of approval on a new Lectionary proposed by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales in July of last year. Published by the
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