Belfast priest who died in boating accident ‘pride of his community’

A Belfast-born priest whose body was recovered from a river following a boating accident was the pride of his community, those who knew him have said. Fr Stephen Rooney died following last Sunday’s tragedy on the Detroit River in the US. He was a priest in the US for the last 30 years and was... Read More

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August 20, 2020

Governments must act now, demands JRS, following tragic death of teenage migrant

Governments must act now, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) UK said as it reiterated calls for safe, managed routes, after a teenage migrant was found dead on a French beach. The 16-year-old Sudanese migrant was found dead on a Calais beach after officials were told a makeshift boat had capsized at sea. Another migrant, suffering from hypothermia,... Read More

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June 12, 2020

Congo’s new Ebola outbreak adds strain as agencies respond to Covid-19

As Congo battles the Covid-19 pandemic, a new Ebola outbreak has resurfaced in the northwest, just as authorities were prepared to declare the end of Ebola in three eastern provinces. The cases were confirmed in Mbandaka, a port city on River Congo on 31st May. By 8th June, there were 12 cases, nine of which... Read More

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March 16, 2020

Italian priests and religious women are among victims of Covid-19

A number of priests and religious women have been among the nearly 2,000 people who have died in Italy because of illness connected with COVID-19. One member of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity died yesterday, Sunday 15th March, at the age of 88 after she and 23 members of her community in Tortona, near... Read More

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February 19, 2020

Catholic gospel singer found dead in police cell in Rwanda

A popular Catholic gospel singer was found dead in a police cell in Kigali, Rwanda, in what authorities said was a suicide. Kizito Mihigo, 38, died on 17th February, three days after he was arrested for allegedly fleeing the country to join a rebel group in neighbouring Burundi and for allegedly trying to bribe those... Read More

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January 7, 2020

Church workers join aid distribution after Jakarta floods leave 60 dead

Caritas Indonesia (Karina) has joined the Jakarta Archdiocese in distributing aid to people hard hit by floods that have killed dozens of people in and around Indonesia’s capital. Ucanews.org reported the floods are considered among the worst to have hit the Indonesian capital and its suburbs since records began. According to the National Disaster Management... Read More

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November 1, 2019

Pray for the dead, cardinal urges Catholics

The early November feasts of All Saints and All Souls are reminders that God’s Church exists both on earth and in heaven and that all the faithful, living and dead, can and should pray for each other, a top Vatican official wrote. Cardinal Mauro Piacenza heads the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican court that deals with... Read More

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September 5, 2019

Colombian Cardinal Jose Pimiento dead at 100

Colombian Cardinal Jose de Jesus Pimiento Rodriguez, who participated in the Second Vatican Council, has died at the age of 100. Before his death on 3rd September, Cardinal Pimiento, the retired archbishop of Manizales, was the oldest cardinal in the world. In a statement released after his death, the Colombian bishops’ conference said it mourned... Read More

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August 30, 2019

Italian Cardinal Achille Silvestrini dead at 95

Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, former prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches and a longtime Vatican diplomat, has died at the age of 95. According to Vatican News, Cardinal Silvestrini died on 29th August in Rome. Born in the northern Italian city of Brisighella, he was ordained a priest in 1946 and subsequently received doctorates from... Read More

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August 14, 2019

Catholic mother who served soldiers tea and sandwiches shot dead by army months later

The daughter of a Catholic woman who welcomed the arrival of British soldiers in Northern Ireland said she was shot dead by the Army months after serving them tea and sandwiches at her family home. Joan Connolly, a mother-of-eight, lived with her husband and children in a predominately Catholic area in west Belfast when the... Read More

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Belfast priest who died in boating accident ‘pride of his community’

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Church workers join aid distribution after Jakarta floods leave 60 dead

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