Cardinal Turkson says offer to resign from top Vatican post is standard procedure
Vatican CityRNS A high-ranking Vatican prelate, considered a potential contender by some to become the first African pope in over a thousand years, said Tuesday that he has offered his resignation from his top-level post at the Vatican and that his future now lies in Pope Francis’ hands. Cardinal Peter Turkson, 73, originally from Ghana, […]
Sudan’s PM Hamdok intends to resign within hours – sources
Khartoum, SudanReuters Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has told a group of national political and intellectual figures that he intends to resign in the coming hours, two sources close to Hamdok told Reuters on Tuesday. Hamdok was reinstated on 21st November following a coup a month earlier that saw the military take power and end […]
American ex-priest in East Timor found guilty of sex abuse
Oecusse, East Timor AP A defrocked American priest accused of sexually abusing orphaned and disadvantaged young girls under his care in East Timor was found guilty Tuesday and sentenced to 12 years in prison, in the first case of its kind in the staunchly Catholic nation. Richard Daschbach, 84, who spent decades as a missionary […]
A prison education: How US evangelical education institutions are creating pastors behind bars
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on a fledgling US movement among evangelical seminaries, colleges and universities to rehabilitate prisoners through education…
Exceptions for “Jewish tourism” rankle US Christians blocked from Israel at Christmas
RNS There will be no US church choirs singing carols in Bethlehem’s Manger Square to mark Jesus’ birth this year at Christmas. In late November, Israel imposed a ban on all incoming travel from the US just as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus was detected. Beginning on Tuesday, Israelis may not travel to the […]
Essay: Americans support a high bar for religious exemptions to vaccines
In an essay first published on Religion News Service, ROBERT P JONES, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, and EBOO PATEL, founder of Interfaith Youth Core, look at the result of a recent poll addressing US attitudes towards the vexed issue of religious exemptions…