Amish forgiveness has embraced the mother of a man who murdered five little girls and injured 5 others. He then killed himself. A single word in black cursive font hangs above a large double pane window in Terri Roberts’ sun room in Pennsylvania, US. It says, “Forgiven.” The word – and the room itself, a gift built Read more
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Major religions organise festival to tear down religious barriers
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016Major religions gathered recently in Korea. Representatives from Korea’s four major religions organized a religious festival aimed at tearing down the walls between them. The World Religious Peace Committee organized the 2016 World Religion Culture Festival at Jeonju and other sites. The committee comprised of representatives from Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant and Won Buddhist traditions. Won Read more
Immensely significant – Anglican and Catholic bishops to work together
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016Immensely significant celebrations marking 50 years since an Anglican Centre was founded in Rome to “promote Christian unity in a divided world” will take place in Rome next week. A week-long summit which the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Pope Francis will attend in Rome will climax with a service in the monastery from which Read more
Church of England spread anti-Semitism
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Anti-semitism and the Church of England’s role is embarrassing, says the Archbishop of Canterbury. Jewish leaders praised the Archbishop, Justin Welby. He admitted the Church “compounded the spread” of anti-Semitism. Welby’s comments appear in a booklet called ‘Lessons Learned’. This is a collection of essays produced by the Holocaust Educational Trust and Community Security Trust. Read more
Adoption arranged for Zika babies
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Adoption not abortion is available for Zika virus-affected babies in Jamaica. Kingston’s Archbishop Kenneth Richards says Jamaica must preserve its humanity by respecting life. It must not give way to abortion. Dr. Dayton Campbell, a member of Parliament, has been pushing to make abortion available for babies with microcephaly. Abortion is illegal in Jamaica except Read more
Murdered priests and the smear campaign
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Smear campaigns have appeared about three priests murdered in Mexico over the past 10 days. The Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico City said the campaign suggests the priests’ behaviour was questionable. Two of the slain priests died in Veracruz state last week. Veracruz state prosecutors alleged they were drinking with their killers before they disappeared Another Read more
Attendance at Anglican Cathedral services rises by 18%
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Latest figures show an 18% increase in the numbers attending services in England’s Anglican Cathedrals between 2005 and 2015. On average 36,700 people,adults and children, attended cathedral services each week in 2015. Almost all of the increase in attendance over the past decade has been in increasing midweek attendance. But in 2015 attendance at Sunday Read more
Families targeted by specific demon says exorcist
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Families are targeted by a demon specialising in attacking the love that grows within marriage and family life. Exorcist Fr. César Truqui, warned everything harming the family, including divorce, pleases the devil. “A demon who specializes in the attack on the family, [is] also cited in the story of Tobias, called ‘Asmodeus,’” he said. In Read more
Nuclear weapons – US bishops and the UN agree
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Catholic Bishops in the US support the Comprehensive [Nuclear Weapons] Test Ban Treaty. Their stance echoes Vatican statements about North Korea’s nuclear capabilities and Pope Francis’s concerns. The U.S. bishops’ conference “welcomes the action of the U.N. Security Council …,” Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, N.M. said. He says the Conference encourages “this important Read more
Human bones mystery uncovered at church
Friday, September 30th, 2016Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of at least six people hidden under a church floor in Anglesey in Wales. The bones were discovered during a project to clean and restore a rare alabaster stone tomb at St Gredifael’s Church near Menai Bridge. The tomb at Penmynydd is of Goronwy Tudur and his wife Myfanwy – Read more