Postcards: African Catholics in NYC find community at French Mass
KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU, of Associated Press, reports on how New York City’s Church of Notre Dame brings together a diverse range of people…
Vatican cardinal says donations went to charity, not brother
Vatican CityAP A once-powerful cardinal testified Thursday that he donated €125,000 of Vatican money to a Sardinian diocese for purely charitable reasons, rejecting Vatican prosecutors’ claims that the money benefitted his brother who ran the charity. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first-ever cardinal to testify before the Vatican’s criminal tribunal, said he couldn’t deny that his […]
Ukrainian Brazilians gather to pray and send relief to those fleeing invasion
São Paulo, Brazil For Ukrainian-born Baptist missionary Vitalii Arshulik, the conflict in Ukraine is close to home – despite the fact that he lives in Prudentópolis, a city in Brazil’s Paraná State, more than 10,000 kilometres away. Arshulik, who has been serving a recently founded Christian community in the city over the past four years, is among the more […]
Red Cross urges safe passage for people, aid in Ukraine’s Mariupol
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The International Committee of the Red Cross called on the warring parties on Thursday to let people leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol safely and to allow aid in. Up to 40 ICRC staff and their families had to flee the port along with other civilians on Wednesday, because they had […]
Scant progress in peace talks as Ukrainian cities pounded in more Russian attacks
Kyiv/Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Rescue workers on Thursday dug survivors out of the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol which Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian air strike as people sheltered there from bombardments. Russia denied striking the theatre. But Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under renewed Russian shelling on Thursday […]
Shells hit theatre sheltering Ukraine civilians, Biden calls Putin a war criminal
Kyiv/Lviv, Ukraine Reuters International outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grew on Thursday as US and Ukrainian officials said civilians waiting in line for bread and sheltering in a theatre had been killed by Russian forces. US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal in comments the Kremlin said were “unforgivable” […]
Canada launches $C250 million fund to tackle gun violence
Toronto, CanadaReuters Canada launched a $C250 million fund to curb gun violence, earmarking a significant amount to stop gun smuggling at the border, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said on Wednesday. The fund will be used to help municipalities and Indigenous communities prevent gun and gang violence, and in banning of more than 1,500 models of […]
Health Insight: Running injuries don’t happen for the reasons you think – here’s the three best ways to prevent them
NATHAN LIDDLE and JONATHAN TAYLOR – in an article published on The Conversation, tackle some injury prevention myths and provide some evidence-based tips…
Updated: Quake in Japan kills two, halts factories, cuts power to thousands of homes
Last updated: 12.30pm, 18th March, 2022 (AEDT)Tokyo, JapanReuters A powerful earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast left thousands of homes without water and power on Thursday and forced factories to suspend operations, adding to supply chain woes for makers of smartphones, electronics and automobiles worldwide. The magnitude 7.4 tremblor struck just before midnight on Wednesday east of […]
Cardinal calls for Vatican reprimand over sexuality remarks
Rome, ItalyAP Cardinal George Pell has called for the Vatican’s doctrine office to intervene and reprimand two leading European Catholic churchmen who called for changes in Catholic teaching on sexuality and homosexuality. Pell, who was convicted and then acquitted of sex abuse charges in his native Australia, said he understood the secular pressures in Germany […]