Munich (kath.net/KIN, October 9, 2014). For three and a half days in early October the business manager of the Catholic relief agency Kirche in Not (Aid to the Church in Need, Germany), Karin Maria Fenbert, […]
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, held talks on Tuesday with Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, and both pledged […]
(Vatican Radio, August 22, 2014). The aggravation of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq in the name of the Islamic Caliphate has been accompanied by widely publicized and sensationalized incidents of extreme barbarity, such as […]
Königstein, Germany/Erbil, Iraq (kath.net/ACN). “Unless we want to be silent witnesses to the last few lines of the history of Christianity in Iraq, the international community must respond decisively now,” said Baron Johannes Heereman, President […]
Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in an interview with the international Catholic relief organization […]
(Gènéthique, June 11, 2014) The technique named CRISPR-Cas9 has been causing an “avalanche of publications” in scientific journals for the past eighteen months. It allows “custom-made” modifications to “any gene and any living organism whatsoever”, […]
(Munich-Mossul, Kirche in Not) After the capture of the northern-Iraqi metropolis Mosul by Islamist forces, all the Christians who were still living there have now fled. The Catholic Archbishop of the city, Amil Shamaaoun Nona, […]
(Gènéthique, May 22, 2014) Between June 2012 and January 2013 a survey was conducted in Armenia concerning sex-selective abortion and the reasons for it. Since it has become a common practice in recent years, the […]
(Information Resource of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, April 21, 2014) “This Easter I wish to invite you to make a very concrete change. Let everyone today ask himself: ‘Do I give bribes and take them?’ […]
Msgr. Walter R. Rossi, Rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, notes that “During his lifetime, Blessed John Paul II visited this National Shrine on several occasions as Cardinal Archbishop […]
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