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The Year Pope Benedict Xvi Hit His Stride
Edward Pentin’s Vatican Notebook his year has been filled with momentous events for the papacy. It began with the Holy Father’s highly controversial decision to lift the......
Brazilian University Priest Stabbed To Death By Thief
BRAZILIAN priest Fr Alvino Broering, 46, was stabbed at dawn on December 14 in the southern state of Santa Catarina by a man who then stole his car, according to information......
Court Frees Blasphemy Slur Couple
TWO PAKISTANI Christians accused of blaspheming against Islam have been released from jail more than a year after they were arrested. Gulsher Masih and his daughter, Sandal,......
Vandals Smash Indian Grotto
THE GROTTO of St Anthony at the Sacred Heart Church near Udupi has been desecrated in the latest episode of violence against Christians in India’s southern Karnatka state. A......
Couples Told Of Christmas Love
POPE BENEDICT XVI is encouraging those who will celebrate Christmas for the first time as a married couple to find the real meaning of the holiday: love. The Pope spoke of......
Priests Murdered In South Africa
BY BRONWEN DACHS IN CAPE TOWN PRIESTS IN SOUTH Africa are targets for robbers because they are believed to have money, clergy said after a French missionary became the fourth......
Graffiti Attacks At Jerusalem Sites
ANTI - CHRISTIAN graffiti has been daubed on the Franciscan church adjoining the Cenacle on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, next to the room of the Last Supper. Obscene graffiti on the......
Maverick Archbishop Reduced To Lay Status By Pope Benedict
BY JOHN THAVIS IN ROME THREE years after excommunicating Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo the Vatican has imposed the additional penalty of dismissal from the priesthood. In......
Climate Change Hurts Africa’s Poor, Priest Tells Vatican
BY CAROL GLATZ IN ROME CLIMATE CHANGE is hurting poor farmers, including farming seminarians in Africa, it has been claimed. Fr Terence Lino Idraku of the Apostles of Jesus, an......
Filipino Bishops Voice Support For Martial Law
BY STAFF REPORTER THE PRESIDENT of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has endorsed the qualified support the archbishop in Maguindanao province gave for the......
Plan For Marian Shrine In Vietnam
BY STAFF REPORTER THE VIETNAMESE Archdiocese of Hue has launched an ambitious £16 million plan to rebuild a national Marian shrine on confiscated land that the Vietnamese......