Conversations: New Advent album by The Porter’s Gate is for a pandemic-weary world
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, speaks with The Porter’s Gate found Isaac Wardell about the US worship project’s Advent-themed album…
Catholic women urge Vatican to sign Europe rights convention
Rome, ItalyAP A consortium of Catholic women’s groups is calling on the Holy See to join the Council of Europe and to sign the European Convention on Human Rights, arguing that the Vatican should show consistency by expressing its firm commitment to protecting human rights. In a petition marking the Human Rights Day declared by […]
New Caledonia rejects independence in final vote amid boycott
Canberra, Australia/Paris, FranceReuters The French territory of New Caledonia voted against independence in a referendum on Sunday, provisional results showed, amid a big drop in turnout due to a boycott of the vote by the independence movement. The Indigenous Kanak population, who largely favour independence, had called for non-participation in the referendum because they are […]
Pope calls for “serious international dialogue” to defuse Ukraine tensions
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis, in his first comments on the tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine, called on Sunday for serious international dialogue to resolve tensions and urged both sides to avoid an armed conflict. Pope Francis looks on as he holds a news conference aboard a plane on his flight back to […]
In US state of Kentucky residents struggle with loss in storm’s aftermath
Mayfield, Kentucky, USAP Jarred Holmes was supposed to have been working inside a candle factory when it was ripped apart by a monstrous tornado that killed an untold number of employees and trapped many others under mounds of debris. But Holmes’ fiancee had insisted he stay home Friday night because of the looming weather. “She told me […]
Nigerians displaced by insurgency fear being forced to return home
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Hauwa Ahmadu Kukuda rakes straw from the top of the two-room shack she shares with eight children. Goats jostle for it as the children crouch next to tarp-covered walls. Outside, row after dusty row stretches for miles in the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, which houses […]
From home to rubble: growing weather risk fuels Mexico landslides
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The landslide that hit the Cerro del Chiquihuite hill on the edge of Mexico City on 10th September buried Eustacia Angel Valentin’s home and three other houses, killing four people and forcing over 140 families to relocate. It was just one of scores of natural disasters to strike Mexico in the past […]
As government offensive pushes forward, scars of war dot Ethiopia’s Amhara region
Gashena, EthiopiaReuters In a roadside village shattered by one of Africa’s bloodiest current conflicts, a donkey and its young, turbaned master tiptoe past an unexploded shell rusting by the blasted remnants of a tank, its turret and tracks tossed sideways. Ethiopian soldiers said the tank’s crew had been fighting for Tigray, the rebellious northern region […]
Guatemala seeks aid, smuggler crackdown after Mexico migrant deaths
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Guatemala has urged the United States to invest in the country and elsewhere in Central America to boost development, and called for a crackdown on people-smuggling gangs after dozens of migrants died in a truck crash in Mexico. Officials from Guatemala and Mexico on Friday pledged to tackle international people-smuggling networks they […]
The Interview: Sister Nathalie Becquart, the woman who is helping reshape the Catholic Church
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ interviews Sister Nathalie Becquart, the French religious sister of the Congregation of Xavières who has a key role at the Vatican…