EWTN Global Catholic Network has launched an Arabic-language news service headquartered in Erbil, Iraq, Michael P Warsaw, EWTN’s Chairman and CEO, announced on March 25, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation. The Association for Catholic Information Middle East and North Africa, or ACI MENA, will publish original news content in Arabic using a network of Read more
Psychologists are struggling as a grim picture emerges of New Zealanders’ mental health, two years on from the country’s first lockdown. Clinical psychologist Dr Victoria Thompson told 1News that demand for mental health help is sky-high, saying, “people are wanting more help than ever”. “We are doing our best but we can’t keep up with Read more
Plans for Pope Ted, the musical based on ’90s sitcom Father Ted, have reportedly been axed following continued clashes between the programme’s creator, Graham Linehan, and trans-rights activists. In an interview with the BBC’s Stephen Nolan on March 24 (as reported by Chortle), the writer explained how his career has dissolved and how he’s lost Read more
Catholics in southeast China have taken to the front line to battle a new Covid-19 outbreak that has been raging across various Chinese territories. In parishes of Jiangxi province, Catholics are involved in preventive measures including testing, contact tracing and other forms of medical assistance, says a report from the state-sanctioned Bishops’ Conference of the Read more
The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar’s military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a military crackdown. The action by the military is now the subject of a genocide case Read more
Hate speech laws were supposed to be ready by now but, after confusion and “strong feedback”, the Government is giving it a rethink. In June last year, Justice Minister Kris Faafoi launched a discussion document outlining the Government’s plan to create new hate speech laws in response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Read more
EU sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine are driving up fertiliser prices, leading to what one CEO said is going to be a food crisis. “We are going to have a food crisis. It’s a question of how large,” said Svein Tore Holsether, the CEO of major fertiliser producer Yara International, the Wall Read more
Teachers at a controversial Christian school in Brisbane are being asked to sign employment contracts that warn they could be sacked for being openly homosexual. The Citipointe Christian College is at the heart of yet another scandal after a former teacher lost his job for refusing to sign the document last month. The private primary Read more
A parish in western Ukraine has transformed itself into a reception centre for hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict that has created Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. In the first three weeks since Ukraine’s invasion by Russian forces on 24 February, “about 2,000 people have passed through our church,” Fr Grzegorz Read more