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January 19, 2024

Chaos deepens as Dutch bishops collectively reject blessings for same-sex couples

January 19, 2024

The Dutch bishops have become the latest conference to collectively reject the new provision by the Vatican for non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular relationships. A statement issued by the Bishops’ Conference of the Netherlands stopped short of authorising either blessings or prayers for any couples if they could be construed as

First ever papal trip to Vietnam likely after thaw in bilateral relations

January 19, 2024

ROME – After meeting Vietnamese officials, a top Vatican diplomat has said he will travel to Vietnam this spring as the two countries continue to make significant strides toward rapprochement, and that a papal trip is a likely possibility at some point in the future. A delegation representing the Communist Party of Vietnam visited the

Africans praise peer for demanding end to Nigeria’s Christian ‘genocide’

January 19, 2024

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon — A leading Catholic research entity in Africa has welcomed the call by a British Catholic politician for urgent action to resist the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Johan Viljoen, director of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute, an entity of the Southern Catholic Bishops’ Conference, called the recent push by crossbench peer Lord