The Vatican insisted this weekend that it has always cooperated with Italian officials investigating the 1983 kidnapping of one of its residents, the teenage daughter of one its employees. Two weeks ago a senior prosecutor in Rome, Giancarlo Capaldo, was reported as asserting that serving members of the Curia “know the truth” about Emanuela’s disappearance. Read more
A Goa parish priest and more than 1,500 parishioners have been charged with attempted murder after six policemen were attacked and injured on Saturday night.
Enraged parishioners attacked the policemen after they turned up at around 9pm at St Francis Xavier Church in Velim to talk to Father Romano Gonsalves.
The crowd thought the policemen had come to try and intimidate the parish priest who was raided recently by income-tax and police officials.
Fr Gonsalves tried to shield the policemen in his bedroom but the parishioners dragged them out and beat them up.
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