A US seminarian is believed to have drowned after he saved the life of a woman who fell into a river. Brian Bergkamp, a seminarian from the diocese of Wichita, went to the aid of a woman who fell into the Arkansas River on July 9. Mr Bergkamp, 24, was among five people travelling in Read more
In the first pastoral trip of his pontificate, Pope Francis travelled to a refugee centre in southern Italy and issued a heartfelt appeal against the “globalisation of indifference” towards migrants. The Pope said he decided to visit Lampedusa, a small island with a population of 6000 and just 70 miles from Tunisia, after seeing newspaper Read more
Family members wept as the body of So’saia Paasi was pulled from the water and brought ashore. The Tongan community is rallying around the grieving family of those lost in the Manukau boating tragedy. Family members cried out when the bodies of 45-year-old So’saia Paasi and his son were recovered by police divers yesterday. The Read more