Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia as abuse allegations escalate
La Paz, Bolivia AP Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating paedophilia scandal involving priests. Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, a leading member of the church’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, arrived in Bolivia on the […]
Cyclone-hit Myanmar, Bangladesh need $US375 million in aid – UN
Reuters The United Nations on Tuesday said it needed $US375 million in funding to get food, medicine and other relief supplies to millions of people affected by a cyclone that devastated parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Western Myanmar and provinces in neighbouring Bangladesh, where there is a large population of Rohingya Muslims and refugees, bore […]
New Mexican Spanish: A unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the role Catholic brotherhoods are playing in preserving a dialect which evolved from the mixing of Spanish and Indigenous languages…
New US asylum policies after Title 42 “don’t address root cause”, say faith-based groups
RNS The number of crossings at the United States-Mexico border reportedly are down since Title 42 ended last week. But some faith-based organisations tasked with refugee resettlement in the US – many of which also help those seeking asylum in the country – say fixing the country’s broken immigration system is far from finished. They point to […]
Essay: A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions – but it’s still a shrewd investment
In an article first published on The Conversation, EMIEL DE LANGE, JOCELYNE SZE and ROBERT FLETCHER look at a recent proposal to give money to people living in or using key conservation areas around the world…
Congo Red Cross halts search for hundreds of flood victims
Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters The Congolese Red Cross has suspended its search for hundreds of victims of recent deadly floods in eastern Congo as it lacks the machinery needed to dig through metres of mud and debris, its local representative said on Tuesday. Red Cross teams have been searching for bodies since early […]
Lifestory: What was it about Tim Keller?
In a tribute to the US minister Tim Keller – who died last week at the age of 72, JOSHUA CHATRAW, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that before anything else vocationally, Keller was a pastor…
Pope’s Ukraine peace envoy blasts war as a “pandemic” that affects everyone
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis’ peace envoy for Ukraine, a veteran of the Catholic Church’s conflict-mediation efforts, blasted war as a “pandemic” on Tuesday and said all Christians are called to be peacemakers. In his first public comments since being named Ukraine envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi called for the creation of a culture of peace to […]