World News
Girl, 12, rescued in Philippines after Sydney man arrested for child abuse
November 5, 2019 · By The Guardian for www.scmp.com
Police have rescued a 12-year-old girl whose abuse was allegedly live-streamed by a Sydney man on social media following a joint investigation between Australian and Philippine authorities. The girl was freed on Friday by Philippine National Police and Australian federal police (AFP) officers at a property in the city of Rizal, about a two-hour drive […]
Read More...The Synod for the Amazon: A fresco for our ‘common home’
November 5, 2019 · By La Croix International staff for international.la-croix.com
An aspect of the just concluded Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region was to stress the need for cultural conversion for the mission and growth of the Church, according to a leading Catholic journalist. Father Antonio Spadaro SJ, editor-in-chief of La Civilta Cattolica, in his latest article said that the thinking of indigenous peoples offers […]
Read More...Pope declares Vatican’s Secret Archive not so secret anymore
November 4, 2019 · By News-Journal for www.news-journalonline.com
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn’t so secret after all. Francis on Monday officially changed the name of the Holy See archive to remove what he said were the “negative” connotations of having “secret” in its name. From now on, the vast trove of documents, manuscripts and […]
Read More...Mother Teresa nuns face second baby-selling charge
November 4, 2019 · By ucanews reporter, Ranchi for www.ucanews.org
Missionaries of Charity nuns in India’s Jharkhand state are facing a police probe following allegations of selling a baby, the second such charge in little over a year. Following complaints by a rape victim, police are investigating the role of Nirmal Hriday (tender heart), a shelter home for unwed mothers that the nuns manage in Ranchi, capital of the […]
Read More...Kuwait moves on Instagram slave traders after BBC investigation
November 4, 2019 · By Owen Pinnell & Jess Kelly for www.bbc.com
Kuwaiti authorities say they have officially summoned the owners of several social media accounts used to sell domestic workers as slaves. A BBC News Arabic investigation found online slave markets on apps provided and made available by Google and Apple, including Facebook-owned Instagram. Women were offered for sale as workers via hashtags such as “maids […]
Read More...Female teacher to be sentenced over sex with student
October 31, 2019 · By Paul Reynolds for www.rte.ie
A 25-year-old female teacher who had sex with one of her secondary school students on two occasions last year is due to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court tomorrow. The court was told that the woman was aged 23 at the time and was working in her first job as a substitute English teacher. […]
Read More...Witnesses give testimony in New Zealand child abuse probe
October 30, 2019 · By DW.com for www.dw.com
A New Zealand commission publicly quizzed witnesses in a large-scale probe into child abuse on Tuesday, with two abuse survivors testifying at the opening of the two-week public hearing. Authorities in New Zealand took 100,000 children and vulnerable adults from their families between 1950 and 1999, and many of them were subsequently abused by the […]
Read More...Hillsong founder Brian Houston refused to answer questions over father’s child abuse, police told MPs
October 30, 2019 · By Josh Taylor for www.theguardian.com
Brian Houston, the founder of Hillsong church, refused to be interviewed by New South Wales police about his father’s child abuse confessions, shortly after which an investigation was nearly abandoned due to a lack of sufficient evidence, parliamentary documents reveal. NSW police confirmed last month the investigation was still open, following reporting from the Wall Street Journal […]
Read More...Behind the anger: why so many people are protesting around the world right now
October 30, 2019 · By Stephanie Hogan · CBC News for www.cbc.ca
For some, it’s about a sudden hike in the price of a subway ticket. For others, the suggestion of a stolen election. Or a stolen country. The flashpoints driving current unrest around the world are as diverse as the people pouring into the streets. The world is at a high level of protest right now, says Robert O’Brien, a […]
Read More...Child sexual abuse inquiry criticises lack of cooperation from Vatican
October 29, 2019 · By Owen Bowcott for www.theguardian.com
The Vatican’s repeated refusal to cooperate with official investigations into paedophile priests and its delay in stripping convicted offenders of their clerical status has been condemned by the UK’s child sexual abuse inquiry. In a highly critical attack on the papacy’s stonewalling response to decades of complaints, the lead counsel to the inquiry, Brian Altman QC, said […]
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