January, 2024
TB Joshua: Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers, BBC finds
January 9, 2024 · By Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner, BBC News, Africa Eye for www.bbc.com
TB Joshua: Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers, BBC finds Evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the founder of one of the world’s biggest Christian evangelical churches has been uncovered by the BBC. Dozens of ex-Synagogue Church of all Nations members – five British – allege atrocities, including rape and forced abortions, by Nigeria’s […]
Read More...Ukraine-Russia war: Putin citizenship decree violates children’s rights, Ukraine says
January 8, 2024 · By War in Ukraine for www.bbc.com
Ukraine-Russia war: Putin citizenship decree violates children’s rights, Ukraine says Ukraine has condemned a decree signed by President Putin making it possible to confer Russian citizenship on Ukrainian children moved to Russia. Last March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin over Russia’s policy of forced child deportations. The Ukrainian foreign […]
Read More...Film on martyred priests makes waves in the Philippines
January 5, 2024 · By Ronald O. Reyes for www.ucanews.com
Film on martyred priests makes waves in the Philippines Thousands in Catholic-majority Philippines have continued to flock to theaters to watch an award-winning film on three priests executed by the Spanish colonizers in the 19th century. Released nationwide on Christmas Day, the historical biopic GomBurZa retells the story of three native Filipino priests – Mariano Gomez, 72; Jose […]
Read More...Jeffrey Epstein: Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton named in court files
January 5, 2024 · By Max Matza & Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News for www.bbc.com
Jeffrey Epstein: Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton named in court files The UK’s Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton are among high-profile figures named in US court papers detailing connections of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The newly released records form part of a case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend who has been jailed for helping […]
Read More...Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein’s associates to be unsealed
January 5, 2024 · By James Hill and Aaron Katersky for abcnews.go.com
Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein’s associates to be unsealed A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. The documents are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein’s one-time paramour Ghislaine Maxwell […]
Read More...Muhammad Yunus: Nobel laureate sentenced to jail in Bangladesh
January 5, 2024 · By Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Muhammad Yunus: Nobel laureate sentenced to jail in Bangladesh A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labour laws. Prof Yunus’ supporters say the case is politically motivated. The acclaimed economist and three colleagues from Grameen Telecom – one of the firms he […]
Read More...Children winning convictions of their rapists are real heroes
January 5, 2024 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Children winning convictions of their rapists are real heroes Fr. Shay Cullen 5 January 2024 There is so much child abuse, human trafficking, injustice, oppression, poverty, inequality and violence in the world many can feel overwhelmed and sometimes hopeless. But when one has Christian faith and believes with conviction that justice, truth and goodness will […]
Read More...Stop the killings and set the people free
January 4, 2024 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Stop the killings and set the people free Shay Cullen Another Herod, worse that history tells, He bombs the Gaza victims with deadly US shells. Mostly women and children, twenty-three thousand, even more are dead, A hundred thousand more wounded? suffering in tents, with starvation, hunger, a burning desire for bread. Herod wages a war […]
Read More...Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion
January 4, 2024 · By Elise Ann Allen for catholicherald.co.uk
Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion At the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, Pope Francis at Christmas offered a message of hope, saying Jesus’s birth brings light to a […]
Read More...Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy
January 4, 2024 · By Simon Caldwell for catholicherald.co.uk
Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy Police in Nicaragua have arrested two more Catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go into exile. The arrests of Fr Carlos Aviles and Fr Hector Treminio raise the numbers of priests arrested by […]
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