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Priest’s killing signals return of fear for Pakistani Christians
February 3, 2022 · By Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore for www.ucanews.com
Priest’s killing signals return of fear for Pakistani Christians The daylight attack by motorcycle-riding gunmen on two Christian priests, killing one and wounding another, has reignited fears among Pakistan’s beleaguered minority community. The priests were attacked as they drove home from a Sunday service in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Jan. 30, “We want to […]
Read More...Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet
February 3, 2022 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet A video of a Chinese mother of eight children locked up in a village hut with a chain around her neck has sparked outrage and shock in China. The video on Douyin, which owns TikTok, was shot by a man who visits the woman, […]
Read More...The Idiot Who Ruined Britain
February 3, 2022 · By umair haque for eand.co
The Idiot Who Ruined Britain Has a Prime Minister ever held on to power so desperately? There’s Boris Johnson, rocked by scandal after scandal. What the Brits call Partygate means that Boris’s administration made the lockdown rules — and then proceeded to violate them time after time, boozing it up at parties, while the nation couldn’t see […]
Read More...Dominican priest murdered while hearing confessions in Vietnam
February 2, 2022 · By UCA News reporter, Ho Chi Minh City for www.ucanews.com
Dominican priest murdered while hearing confessions in Vietnam A young Dominican priest who was devoted to serving ethnic groups in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been killed in a knife attack. An informed source from Kontum Diocese said Dominican Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh, who provided pastoral care for Sa Loong Subparish in Kon Tum province, was stabbed […]
Read More...The increasing woes of Asia’s Christians
February 2, 2022 ·
The increasing woes of Asia’s Christians Changing global sociopolitical equations have increased the hostility that Christian communities face in Asia more than ever before. The combined effects of religious fanaticism, narrow political exegesis and the indifference of a self-centered world are pushing Asian Christians to the brink of extinction. The Central Asian nation of Afghanistan […]
Read More...Prince Andrew, Bob Dylan, Catholic priests and the Child Victims Act
February 2, 2022 · By Ritu Prasad & Holly Honderich, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Prince Andrew, Bob Dylan, Catholic priests and the Child Victims Act A change in law in New York has allowed for the filing of more than 9,000 child abuse claims – including cases against Prince Andrew, Bob Dylan and high-profile Catholic priests – previously blocked by the state’s statute of limitations. Warning: The following content […]
Read More...Child abuse report: Deaths of Black children up in pandemic
January 28, 2022 · By SALLY HO for apnews.com
Child abuse report: Deaths of Black children up in pandemic The latest national child welfare report shows an increase in the number of Black children who died, even though fewer abuse-related fatalities were investigated in the yearlong period that included the first several months of the pandemic. The findings were released in the 2020 Child […]
Read More...Ex-pope Benedict under scrutiny in German child abuse probe
January 28, 2022 · By Agence France-Presse / for newsinfo.inquirer.net
Ex-pope Benedict under scrutiny in German child abuse probe BERLIN — A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in Germany, with former Pope Benedict XVI among those in the spotlight. The report by law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl (WSW) will analyze how […]
Read More...Sex trafficking: Children groomed in Romania sent to UK
January 27, 2022 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Sex trafficking: Children groomed in Romania sent to UK The BBC has found that children as young as 10 are being groomed in Romania, to be trafficked to the UK. Once they arrive as teenagers, they’re kept captive and pimped out for sex. With police struggling to stop this brutal trade, BBC correspondent Jean Mackenzie […]
Read More...Auschwitz: Dutch tourist fined over Nazi salute at former death camp
January 27, 2022 · By The Holocaust for www.bbc.com
Auschwitz: Dutch tourist fined over Nazi salute at former death camp A Dutch tourist has been detained in Poland for giving the Nazi salute at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, local police say. The 29-year-old woman made the gesture in front of the Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Sets You Free) gate. The […]
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