Western Christians need to show solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the Middle East. Bishop Angaelos who is the head of the Coptic church in the UK, says for example many Coptic Christians in the North Sinai have been forced out of their homes. They were told by ISIS to “leave or die”. Angaelos Read more
An ultra conservative movement in the US which has links to the Evangelical Churches and to conservative economists, is behind the opposition to Pope Francis according Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager. He is the recently reinstated Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta. “What the pope says about the world economy naturally angers them and they are Read more
Stunning photographs of a hidden Knights Templar church have been released for the first time. The Knights Templar was a Catholic military order. The 700 year-old church is hidden in an underground cavern in Shropshire, England. Read more
New figures from the Vatican Secretariat of Economy show the Holy See’s deficit halved to €12.4 million (about NZ$19000000) in 2015. This is down from €25 million both in 2014 and 2013. Read more
Prince Charles and Camilla will meet Pope Francis in a private audience when they visit the Holy See at about the end of March. It will be their first meeting with Francis. The Royals will be touring Romania, Italy, the Vatican and Austria during the end of March and beginning of April. Read more
Hexing President Trump and all those who abet him, so as to drive Trump from office is not a good idea, warn exorcists. Witches from around the US say they will be casting a mass spell every night of a waning crescent moon until he is no longer president. They began their mass hex programme Read more
Hundreds of dead infants’ remains have been found buried in sewers at an Irish convent. The was used as a home for unmarried mothers in Tuam, Ireland for several decades. It was closed in the early 1980s. The find has backed up a historian’s claim that up to 800 children may lie in an unmarked Read more
Botanist and environmentalist Peter Raven says Pope Francis and his three most recent predecessors “have always argued that you should not have more children than you can bring up properly.” Raven said the pontiffs all realised, as he does, that “We need at some point to have a limited number of people,”. Raven was speaking Read more
Catholic values mean US Catholics are obliged to protest at President Trump’s deportation of immigrants, says Cardinal Donald Wuerl. Wuerl is the Cardinal of the Washington archdiocese. Although many churches are offering their buildings as sanctuaries to immigrants hoping to avoid deportation, Wuerl says he doesn’t think the churches can actually provide that security. “When Read more
Iraqi Christian refugees’ situation is “critical and dangerous”, according to Jordanian priest, Fr. Khalil Jaar. He says their situation will deteriorate as access to international aid tightens. “This is now the third year of displacement for the Iraqi Christians. It’s very tough. Donations are becoming less, while global attention is waning,” Ra’ed Bahou, regional director Read more