Indian bishop, guard hospitalised after parishioners attack them

A Catholic bishop was hospitalised after a group of parishioners attacked him, a security guard and a priest in a five-decade-old land dispute in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Bishop Jerome Dhas Varuvel of Kuzhithurai left the hospital on 12th March, two days after he was attacked by a crowd of about 130... Read More

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December 19, 2018

Indonesian police, Muslim youth to help guard churches at Christmas

More than 90,000 police and soldiers and a moderate Muslim youth group will help guard nearly 50,000 churches across Indonesia, including some previously attacked by terrorists, during the Christmas period. Brig. Gen Dedi Prasetyo, national police spokesman, said Christmas security this year will be focused on churches in 13 provinces, including on the main islands... Read More

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September 24, 2018

Pope warns Lithuanians to guard against anti-Semitism

Pope Francis has warned against the rebirth of anti-Semitic attitudes that fuelled the Holocaust. The Holy Father made the comments as he marked the annual remembrance for Lithuania’s centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during the Second World War. The pope began his second day in the Baltics in Lithuania’s second city, Kaunas,... Read More

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August 31, 2018

Italian Church helps migrants kept aboard coast guard ship for 11 days

One hundred migrants, most from Eritrea, arrived at a Catholic-run centre near Rome late on 28th August after officials from the Italian bishops’ conference negotiated their release from an Italian coast guard ship. They had been on the ship, the Diciotti, for 11 days. The Italian coast guard rescued some 180 migrants from an overcrowded... Read More

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