VATICAN (SE): Fund for Peace has taken a cue from Forbes Magazine, but instead of listing the top 100 richest people in the world, it chose to list the bottom 100.

 

The Australian non-government organisation has named 13-year-old Mary Myaluak Gai, from South Sudan, as Bill Gates’ absolute alter ego.

 

 

ROME (SE): The devil may care, but is a symbolic figure invented by Christians to explain the existence of evil in the world, Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the Jesuit superior general told the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, on June 1.

 

 

VATICAN (SE): The prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, met with Pope Francis on May 29 encouraging him to issue an apology on behalf of the Catholic Church for the role it played in administering the residential schools established in the 19th century for the children of indigenous people.

 

 

VATICAN (SE): Pope Francis said he is deeply saddened by the injury and tragic loss of life caused by the barbaric attack in Manchester. In a message to the people of the city, he expresses his solidarity with all those affected by violence on May 22.

 

 

MANILA (UCAN): Bishop Carlo Morales, from the Philippine Independent Church, was arrested on May 11 on a charge of harbouring a wanted criminal in Ozamiz City in Mindanao.

 

VATICAN (SE): L’Osservatore Romano expressed dismay on April 28 when the prosecutor in Catania, Carmelo Zuccaro, revealed that some organisations involved in migrant-rescue operations in the Mediterranean might be financed by human traffickers.
 

 

BEIJING (AsiaNews): State media in China reported on April 15 that authorities in Xinjiang have involved themselves in a bit of smokescreen policing by punishing a local official for refusing to smoke in front of Muslim elders.