Argentina’s bishops release baptism records of war’s missing children (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
VATICAN (CNS): Argentina’s bishops announced they would release 127 baptism certificates archived in a chapel at a naval facility that was used as a place of torture during the country’s military dictatorship. |
Pope Paul VI Archbishop Romero up for sainthood (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
VATICAN (CNS and SE): Pope Francis cleared the way for the canonisations of Blessed Pope Paul VI and Blessed Archbishop Oscar Romero at a meeting on March 6 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. |
Protests highlight Women’s Day in the Philippines (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
MANILA (UCAN): Women advocates dressed in pink and purple shirts hit the streets of Philippine cities to join protest rallies marking International Women’s Day on March 8. |
Freedom of expression curbed in Myanmar (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
MANDALAY (UCAN): Civic groups in Myanmar have warned that amendments to laws governing demonstrations could be used to curb freedom of expression in the country. |
Move to impeach Philippine chief justice a politcal expedience (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
MANILA (UCAN): “This is very sad,” said Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila, the Philippines, when a congressional committee voted to impeach the country’s Maria Lourdes Sereno, the country’s first female chief justice, who is also an outspoken critic of the president, Rodrigo Duterte. |
New head of European bishops’ commission sets out priorities (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
BRUSSELS (CNS): The new head the Brussels-based Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community bishops, Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, pledged to combat populism and promote European unity. |
Inquiry after religious unrest in Sri Lanka (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
KANDY (SE): Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, will appoint a commission comprised of three retired judges to investigate attacks on Muslims in the city of Kandy by Buddhist mobs in Sri Lanka, Firstpost reported. |
Philippines on alert for Holy Week terror attacks (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
MANILA (UCAN): Philippine authorities have warned of possible terrorist attacks following reports of a new leader, Abu Dar, taking the reins of the so-called Islamic State group in the region. |
Korean Church calls on Japan to atone for comfort women (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
SEOUL (UAN): A coalition made up of Catholic diocesan justice and peace committees, religious institutions and non-goernment organisiations in South Korea, has called on the Japanese government apologise for forcing Asian women—known as comfort women—to provide sexual services for its troops during World War II. |
What do you want to tell the Church? (Saturday, 17 March 2018 )
In the preparation for the pre-synodal meeting that is taking place in Rome from March 19 to 24, the Diocesan Youth Commission organised a small (extremely small) youth forum to meet with young people to listen to their thoughts and hopes in order to have a clear idea of the situation in which they are living. |
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