Catholics from Australia and New Zealand are invited to join a virtual Lenten Gospel enquiry programme. Participants spend forty days listening to the Word of God, reflecting on its application to our lives and to the society in which we live, and then looking for ways of bringing others to Christ through all that we Read more
Hanoi Archdiocese has described government officials’ interruption of a Mass celebrated by its archbishop and priests as an offence against Catholics’ faith, urging the government to respect religious freedom. Father Alfonse Pham Hung, head of the Office of Hanoi Archbishop House, said two government officials from Vu Ban town in Hoa Binh province stormed into Read more
Pope Francis has decreed that the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), a group of traditionalist catholic clergy originally part of the schismatic Lefevbrist movement, can continue to celebrate Mass and other sacraments according to the Tridentine Rite. The decree, which was signed by Francis on February 11 and appeared on the FSSP website this Read more
A religious objection to the Covid-19 vaccine by police and defence force personnel is part of a new challenge to the mandate in the High Court. The basis of their objection is about the use of aborted foetal cells. The cells, collected decades ago, are used to grow cells that the vaccines are tested on. Read more
Catholics in Vietnam’s Archdiocese of Hanoi were shocked when officials wearing helmets interrupted Sunday Mass that was being celebrated by their Archbishop Joseph Vu Van Thien in the province of Hoa Binh, southwest of the capital. The incident took place on February 20 in the parish of Vu Ban, Fides reported. The church there can Read more
The Government is fully funding a national telehealth abortion service in an effort to remove barriers for those seeking an abortion. The free service will focus on enabling people to access early medical abortions and will include information, advice, referrals, counselling and consultations with health practitioners, giving women a free and flexible option. The national Read more
Myanmar’s military regime has arrested two catholic priests who were on their way to help internally displaced persons in Shan state. Local church sources said father John Paul Lwel and Father John Bosco, who belong to the St Therese Little Way Missionary Institute, were arrested by junta soldiers and the Pa-O National Army, an ethnic Read more
Two Jesuit astronomers from the Vatican Observatory were part of recent discoveries: one finding a new member of the solar system and another finding evidence for a long-lost galaxy “eaten up” by the Milky Way. Jesuit Father Richard Boyle discovered the existence of a new object, named “2021 XD7,” in the outer solar system past Read more
Prominent Indian citizens, including Christians, have demanded a repeal of all anti-conversion laws in the country, reported ucanews.com. “Wherever the anti-conversion law, ironically officially called the Freedom of Religion Act, was passed, it became a justification for the persecution of minorities and other marginalised identities,” said the repeal petition. The petition was initiated by the Read more
A religious objection to the Covid-19 vaccine by police and defence force personnel in the HighCourt is part of a new challenge to the mandate. The basis of their objection is about the use of aborted foetal cells. The cells, collected decades ago, are used to grow cells that the vaccines are tested on. There Read more