VATICAN CITY (CNS) — By Barbe Fraze - Hours after a fire or fires sent thousands of migrants and refugees fleeing their tents and makeshift container homes at the Moria camp on the Greek...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a world marked by religious persecution and mounting secularism, being a missionary priest has never been easy.
Add closed frontiers and social distancing caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and the...
Sanctions on Iran: Mike Pompeo on Tuesday claimed that Iran’s nuclear deal, JCPOA, has gone in the history and requested European countries and other states to join the United States for imposition of ‘Strong...
The announcement last week of a landmark agreement between Israel, Serbia and Kosovo to normalize economic relations drew no condemnation from Arab nations, but the European Union has criticized the...
BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN
Robert Spano, President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), visited Turkey last week at the invitation of the Turkish Justice Minister. Spano also met with Pres. Erdogan and give a...
A confrontation is brewing in rural Italy over who should get to determine the needs of the most marginalised among the approximately 550,000 foreigners – including 150,000 undocumented migrants – working in the country’s...
The EU has voiced "serious concern and regret" over Belgrade's commitment to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, casting a shadow over the resumption of Serbia-Kosovo talks.
President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia and Kosovo...
Missiologists have long spoken of the explosive growth of the church in Iran.
Now they have data to back up their claims—from secular research.
According to a new survey of 50,000 Iranians—90 percent residing in Iran—by...
Conflict has ingrained itself in the people of Mozambique for many decades from the days of Portuguese colonial rule, to the ensuing civil war which only ended this century, and now Daesh along with the unseen enemy of COVID-19.
… with growing concern. Religious organizations are among … Europe's faith fault line between Eastern and Western Christianity … " faiths of Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and evangelical Lutheranism. … suppressed, prompting the European Union...
Turkish expert criticizes EU's double Standard toward Islam
During an illegal gathering on August 28, supporters of right-wing Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, who leads the anti-Islamic group Tight Direction (Stram Kurs), burned a copy of...
CNA Staff, Sep 4, 2020 / 06:00 am MT (CNA).- A cardinal has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic may have accelerated the secularization of Europe by 10 years.
In an interview with L’Osservatore Romano Sept....
France’s President Emmanuel Macron criticised what he called “Islamic separatism” in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting the “right to commit blasphemy”.
Mr Macron defended satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published...
Mr Macron defended satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that helped inspire two French-born Islamic extremists to mount a deadly January 2015 attack on the paper’s newsroom.
France’s President Emmanuel...
CNA Staff, Sep 4, 2020 / 03:00 am MT (CNA).- Catholic bishops across Europe have expressed support for an archbishop who was refused entry to his homeland of Belarus.
In a Sept. 3 statement, the...
In the Church of Sweden, part of the Lutheran communion, there is no issue about having female priests with women outnumbering men in the role. It is a different story in the Roman Catholic Church though and the matter has not yet been fully debated.
VATICAN CITY — In reporting historical and recent abuse of minors, the media should broaden its focus to include portrayals of survivors as active agents of reform, one survivor said.
Interviewing...
VATICAN CITY, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Roman Catholic bishops urged Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday to let its most senior cleric come back into the country.
Minsk’s archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who has angered Lukashenko...