US priest declared first American martyr by Pope Francis
Catholics walk past a picture of Rev Stanley Rother during a memorial Mass in the small town of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, on 28th July, 2006. Rev Rother was an Oklahoman priest killed on 28th July, 1981 for his work with indigenous poor during Guatemala’s brutal civil war. PICTURE: Reuters/Daniel LeClair RNS An American missionary priest […]
Italian prisoners honour Pope Francis with flash mob dance
RNS Dozens of prisoners staged a “flash mob” inside an Italian men’s prison to celebrate Pope Francis’ calls for prison reform and greater tolerance and acceptance of the world’s migrants. Around 70 inmates from diverse faiths and ethnic backgrounds danced a Zumba routine titled “Pope is Pop” on Thursday at the low-security district prison in […]
SNAPSHOT: VLADIMIR, RUSSIA
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41,000 adolescents died of AIDS in 2015 – UNICEF report
AIDS claimed the lives of 41,000 adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years during 2015 alone, according to a new report from UNICEF. The UN child-focused agency’s 7th stocktaking report, For Every Child, End AIDS – released to mark World AIDS Day on 1st December, also reveals that there were almost two million adolescents aged between […]
OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: LYDIA
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his study of Acts of the Apostles, looks at the passage in which Lydia came to Christ when Paul visited Philippi…