Vatican tells China clergy to follow their conscience (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
VATICAN (CNS): The Vatican has told bishops and priests in China that they must follow their own consciences in deciding whether to register with the government and it urged Catholics in the country not to judge them for the choices they make. |
Pope gives relics of St. Peter to Orthodox patriarch (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
VATICAN (CNS): In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a “brave and bold” gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter. |
Journeying with young people amid social controversy (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
With the massive July 1 rally, 550,000 Hong Kong people from all walks of life continued to call for the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill and removal of the “riot” label tacked on to the protests of June 12. The will of the people was clearly seen. |
Father-daughter drowning at US-Mexico border sparks sadness and outrage (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
VATICAN (SE): “With immense sadness, the Holy Father has seen the images of the father and his baby daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande River while trying to cross the border between Mexico and the United States,” interim Director of the Holy See Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, told reporters on June 26, Vatican News reported. |
Around the Traps (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
Cubans pray for cardinal |
Former bishop of Baguio dead at 80 (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
MANILA (UCAN): Bishop Carlito Cenzon, the former bishop of the northern Philippine city of Baguio, died at the age of 80 in a Manila hospital on June 26. |
Philippine bishop wants laypeople to administer dioceses (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
MANILA (UCAN): Bishop Francisco de Leon of Antipolo, the Philippines, wants to allow laypeople or nuns to administer dioceses instead of priests. |
Philippine Church leaders decry return of death penalty (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
MANILA (UCAN): Church leaders in the Philippines have warned against any moves to pass a law that will revive the imposition of capital punishment. The Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care issued a statement on June 20 reminding newly elected legislators of their responsibility “to defend human life.” |
Myanmar shuts down Internet in Rakhine (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
MANDALAY (UCAN): Authorities in Myanmar shut down Internet services in the troubled Rakhine State amid claims by local Buddhists, who are seeking greater autonomy, of human rights’ abuses by the security forces. |
Mass for peace on the 69th anniversary of the Korean War (Saturday, 6 July 2019 )
SEOUL (SE): The Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea held a special Mass on June 25 at Peace World Park in Imjingak, South Korea, near the demilitarised zone commemorating the 69th anniversary of outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. South Korean bishops were joined by around 20,000 people from dioceses around the country in praying for peace on the divided peninsula, in the first such event in eight years. |
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