Italy issues arrest warrant for broker in Vatican property deal

Italian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Gianluigi Torzi, an Italian broker who served as the middleman in the Vatican’s majority stake purchase of a property in London’s posh Chelsea district. According to court documents, Italy’s finance police requested the warrant after an investigation into Torzi and three associates who are suspected of money laundering, fraud... Read More

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January 20, 2021

Vatican revokes arrest warrant against woman linked to finance scandal

The Vatican announced that it withdrew an arrest and extradition request for an Italian political analyst, who allegedly was hired as a consultant by Cardinal Angelo Becciu and is now accused of embezzlement. Cecilia Marogna was arrested in October on suspicion of embezzlement and misappropriation of funds by the Italian financial police after an international warrant was... Read More

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December 7, 2020

Israeli police arrest man for throwing firebomb inside Catholic church

Israeli police have arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on the Mount of Olives on 4th December. Though not immediately identified, the man was wearing a large crocheted skullcap generally associated with Jewish settlers. Franciscan Fr Benito Choque, superior of the Convent of Gethsemane, told Catholic... Read More

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November 24, 2020

Elderly Indian Jesuit says training, work help him cope in jail

An elderly Jesuit priest struggling in an Indian jail with ill health says he still finds happiness in listening to the stories of other inmates and credits his congregation for the training that helps him cope with his situation. Father Stan Swamy, 84, has been in Taloja Central Jail in Mumbai since 9th October following... Read More

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October 26, 2020

Indian opposition parties and UN official protest elderly Jesuit’s arrest

Major opposition parties in India and a United Nations official backed an octogenarian Jesuit priest who was jailed for alleged charges of sedition and links with Maoist rebels and demanded his immediate release. The leaders of the opposition Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam... Read More

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October 13, 2020

Indian Jesuit, 83, held for terrorism; thousands protest charges

A special court in Mumbai has placed Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy, a tribal rights activist, in judicial custody until 23rdOctober amid protests in many parts of the country. Officials of the National Investigation Agency, which probes terrorism-linked activities, arrested the 83-year-old priest on 8th October at his residence at Bagaicha, a Jesuit social work centre in... Read More

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October 9, 2020

Police arrest two over ‘cannabis sweets’ that saw 17 pupils taken to hospital

Two people have been arrested by police investigating an incident at a north London Catholic school which left 17 children feeling unwell after eating sweets that were believed to have contained an active ingredient of cannabis. Police were called by London Ambulance Service at around 11.45am on Monday 5th October to La Sainte Union Catholic School... Read More

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September 7, 2020

Birmingham priest arrested in Extinction Rebellion protest at Parliament

A Birmingham priest has been arrested in Westminster in a new wave of climate change protests organised by Extinction Rebellion. Fr Martin Newell was arrested on 1st September as protestors sat on a road outside Parliament on the first day of the ‘September Uprising’. The protestors, many of them young people, had vowed to occupy the... Read More

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August 12, 2020

Security law will suppress Hong Kong’s freedoms, warns peer

The arrest of Catholic Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party will use its new security law to “drive a stake into the very heart of Kong Kong’s freedoms and liberties”, a prominent Catholic peer has warned. Lord David Alton of Liverpool said the arrest of Mr Lai showed that the... Read More

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July 28, 2020

French police arrest cathedral volunteer who confesses to Nantes fire

A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city’s Gothic cathedral. French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two fires in the area of a 17th-century organ and a third above an electrical panel in the Cathedral of... Read More

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Italy issues arrest warrant for broker in Vatican property deal

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Elderly Indian Jesuit says training, work help him cope in jail

Indian opposition parties and UN official protest elderly Jesuit’s arrest

Indian Jesuit, 83, held for terrorism; thousands protest charges

Police arrest two over ‘cannabis sweets’ that saw 17 pupils taken to hospital

Birmingham priest arrested in Extinction Rebellion protest at Parliament

Security law will suppress Hong Kong’s freedoms, warns peer

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