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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July 21, 2020

French police suspect arson was cause of fire at Nantes cathedral

French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three places in the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul on 18th July. Although more than 100 firefighters contained the blaze within two hours and stopped it from spreading to the main body of the... Read More

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June 25, 2020

Bishops praise Bolivians who seize drug-trafficking plane at airstrip

Bishops in Bolivia’s Amazon region praised residents of a small town who seized a light plane, apparently owned by drug traffickers, that had violated their ban on landing at the local airstrip. “Drug trafficking in Bolivia is widespread, and this situation has made that clear,” Bishop Eugenio Coter of Riberalta, who heads the Pan-Amazonian Church... Read More

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June 19, 2020

Racism in any form is intolerable, Vatican official says at UN hearing

Speaking at a special UN discussion about racism and police brutality, a Vatican official repeated Pope Francis’ recent remarks: “We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.” Speaking about demonstrations in the United States following the killing... Read More

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June 16, 2020

Northern Ireland’s experience may offer insight into US policing issues

The US demonstrations over police aggression towards minorities has an antecedent in Northern Ireland, according to a police commander in Salinas, California, who spent the first 10 years of his life in Northern Ireland in the midst of “the Troubles” there, then later wrote his master’s thesis on the applicability of its policing reforms to... Read More

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June 15, 2020

Africans memorialise George Floyd and say ‘Enough is enough’

The killing of African American George Floyd continues to receive condemnation from African governments and citizens, with some describing the killing of an unarmed black man as an unjust murder. Floyd’s death occurred on 25th May, which marks African Union Day. It led to protests and vigils in some African countries and re-emphasised police brutalities... Read More

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June 8, 2020

George Floyd’s death demands examination of conscience, says US archbishop

Amid the turmoil following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, the Archbishop of St Paul and Minneapolis said the Catholic Church must proclaim the Gospel message of Jesus’ love for all people, as well as its teaching on the dignity of human life. The Church also can provide a way for people to process what they... Read More

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June 3, 2020

English and Welsh bishops ‘stand in solidarity’ with US in challenging ‘evil of racism’ and ‘brutal killing’ of George Floyd

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have expressed their “solidarity” with those in the United States who “challenge the evil of racism” and the “brutal killing” of George Floyd. In the days since the killing of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on 25th May, hundreds... Read More

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May 14, 2020

Nigerian bishop: Murdered seminarian had courage of a martyr

A murdered Nigerian seminarian had the courage of a martyr, his bishop said after three men were arrested for murder and kidnapping. One of the suspects said Michael Nnadi was killed because he kept asking his kidnappers “to repent and turn their lives around from their evil ways”, said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto.... Read More

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