A senior cleric has turned down living in a £1 million nine-bedroom mansion for a chapel house that was at the centre of one of Scotland’s most sickening murders. The new Archbishop of Glasgow, William Nolan, could have moved into the 118-year-old arts and crafts mansion, The Oaks, in the plush suburb of Newlands. But Read more
The Men’s Cricket World Cup – one of the world’s most popular sporting events – has touched down in Dharamsala. On Tuesday, the New Zealand cricket team and their families visited the Dalai Lama at his residence in the city at the edge of the Himalayas that serves as the seat of the Tibetan government Read more
For those who are tempted to think faith and daily life do not have to do with one another, Pope Francis says this, frankly, is not true. The Holy Father made this observation during his Sunday Angelus address at noon to the faithful in St Peter’s Square and following from afar. He reflected on today’s Read more
New Zealand is being urged to create immigration pathways for people in low-lying Pacific nations – such as Tuvalu and Kiribati – who are leaving their countries because of the increasing effects of climate change. As a number of islands in the Pacific region face ongoing effects of the climate crisis, residents are struggling to Read more
Brother Godwin Eze, one of three Benedictine monks kidnapped by an armed gang on the night of 17 October from the Eruku Monastery in North Central Nigeria, has been killed by his captors. The other two abducted postulants, Anthony Eze and Peter Olarewaj, were freed on 21 October. Brother Godwin Eze was killed soon after Read more
Pope Francis, in his ongoing catechetical series on apostolic zeal, spoke about the example of Sts Cyril and Methodius, the ninth-century “apostles of the Slavs” whose mission was built on three pillars: unity, inculturation, and liberty. At the centre of the pope’s Oct 25 general audience was an emphasis on the relationship — and harmonisation Read more
The Japanese branch of the Unification Church on Monday criticised the Japanese government’s request for a court order to dissolve the group, saying it’s based on groundless accusations and is a serious threat to religious freedom and human rights of its followers. Japan’s Education Ministry on Friday asked the Tokyo District Court to revoke the Read more
Pope Francis, who is known as “the pope of the peripheries,” has suggested the possibility of travelling to somewhere no pope has gone before — the South Pole. In a new interview published on Oct. 17, the pope said that he plans to visit his native Argentina, adding: “Somebody said that if I go to Read more
New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission has urged people to report any instances of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or other discrimination as the conflict rages between Israel and Hamas. It comes after reports of disorder at Auckland War Memorial Museum when a small number of Palestinian sympathisers gathering to rally against the building being lit up in Israeli Read more
Following a series of surprise attacks against Israel by Hamas on Oct 7, hundreds of military air strikes have been launched across the Gaza Strip as a form of retaliation by the Israeli government. The UN reports that Gaza’s entire population is being deprived of electricity, water, fuel supplies, food, and medicine. Ongoing bombardments and Read more