Pandemic will never deter care for the fragile, religious orders vow

Leaders from dozens of religious orders dedicated to providing health care services and residential homes for the elderly and the disabled reaffirmed their commitment to continue serving the most vulnerable as the global pandemic continues. Despite having to face the pandemic’s onslaught one year ago with inadequate supplies of protective equipment – resulting in numerous deaths for workers and residents – religious men and women... Read More

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March 27, 2021

European bishops: Some nations reduced religious freedom during pandemic

A commission of Catholic bishops has warned religious freedom is threatened in the European Union, as restrictive laws are imposed in the wake of Covid-19. Some governments in Europe have “unquestionably reduced and diminished” religious freedom during the pandemic in disproportionate ways, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, or COMECE, said this week. “It is important not... Read More

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March 26, 2021

Pope approves pay cuts for cardinals, top management and religious at Vatican

With the need to reduce costs and make sure employees are not laid off, Pope Francis has approved pay cuts for cardinals, clergy, religious and upper management officials who work in the Roman Curia and other Vatican entities. The pay cuts will go into effect starting 1st April, according to a papal decree. Because “the financial management of the Holy See” has seen deficits... Read More

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March 12, 2021

Woman religious honoured as one of International Women of Courage

Comboni Sr Alicia Vacas Moro, a Spanish missionary sister and registered nurse, was one of 14 women to receive this year’s International Women of Courage Award, an annual honour from the US Department of State for women who have demonstrated leadership in their human rights work. The 49-year-old woman religious, who is the Jerusalem-based Middle East provincial superior of the Comboni Sisters, has... Read More

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March 1, 2021

Religious order withdraws request to transfer founder’s remains from UK to US

A religious order has withdrawn its request to exhume its founder and transfer some of her remains from England to the United States. The Society of the Holy Child Jesus announced that it was abandoning its plans to move some of the remains of Philadelphia-born Mother Cornelia Connelly from a chapel in Mayfield School, the independent... Read More

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February 26, 2021

Vatican official insists religious services are ‘essential services’

For believers, the ability to practice their faith and receive spiritual guidance are “the highest of essential services,” and pandemic practices over the past year have shown they are not automatically super-spreader events, the Vatican foreign minister said. Speaking during the high-level segment of the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher said: “There are numerous... Read More

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January 8, 2021

French archbishop protests proposal to rein in religious extremism

The head of the French bishops’ conference has testified to a special commission of the National Assembly that while he understands the need to strengthen national security, a proposed law designed to rein in extremist militancy would place religions and religious believers under particular surveillance. Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, conference president, told the... Read More

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December 31, 2020

Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

Attacked because of their faith, killed in a robbery, murdered in a general climate of violence or struck down by someone with obvious mental difficulties, the 20 missionaries who died violent deaths in 2020 were witnesses of the Gospel, said Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news agency. Presenting its annual list of missionaries killed during the... Read More

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December 16, 2020

Pandemic heightens dangers to international religious freedom

Christians and others practising their faith experienced serious challenges to religious freedom around the world this year, heightened by dangers posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The challenges ranged from institutionalised practices to violent killings and kidnappings. Others saw threats to religious freedom in pandemic lockdown restrictions. In Iraq, where Pope Francis is set to make... Read More

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