Indian politician offers cash reward for murders of Evangelists
A legislator from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked outrage after offering a cash reward for attacking Christian evangelists. Gopichand Padalkar, the BJP representative for the Jat constituency in Sangli district, Maharashtra, announced during a public speech that he would reward anyone who assaults those allegedly visiting villages to carry out religious conversions,
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Two sanctuaries, one Heart
The main celebrations under the theme of Pilgrims of Hope are in Rome, but let us examine two significant sites in France that offer pilgrimages giving thanks and explicitly devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Separated by distance, one a simple town, the other a grand Basilica in the heart of Paris, these are
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Polish Catholic news agency head resigns due to ‘totalitarian’ reforms by bishops
The head of one of Europe’s largest Catholic news agencies has resigned in protest over media reforms proposed by the Polish Church. Marcin Przeciszewski, the longtime president of Poland’s Catholic news agency KAI, has accused his country’s bishops of acting illegally and reviving “solutions known from totalitarian times”, reports OSV News. “These reforms are superficial
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Lourdes: a modern, musical retelling of the inspirational story returns to the stage
LONDON – A dynamic new musical exploring the story of St Bernadette and the Marian apparitions in Lourdes is set to return to stages in London and France this summer, following acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Nigeria’s National Theatre in Lagos. Vision: The Musical Story of Lourdes brings a fresh, contemporary lens to a centuries-old
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Diocese of Paris marks twenty-year high at first Notre-Dame ordinations since fire
On 28 June 2025, the eve of the feast of St Peter and St Paul, in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, the Archbishop of Paris, ordained 16 men to the Sacred Priesthood. These were the first ordinations held in the historic cathedral since it was nearly destroyed by fire in 2019 and subsequently restored.
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US criticises MPs for backing ‘state-sponsored suicide’
The Trump administration has rebuked British MPs for backing “state-subsidised suicide” by voting in favour of a Bill to allow doctors to help patients to kill themselves. The US State Department’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour said the vote for the Terminally-Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Commons last
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Don’t be fooled by dubious models of success, Pope warns newly-ordained priests
Pope Leo XIV has warned 32 new priests to not be taken in by today’s models of success and prestige in the world “that are dubious and short-lived.” The pontiff made his remarks on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 27 when he was ordaining the men in St Peter’s Basilica.
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Pakistani Catholic freed from death row 23 years after blasphemy conviction
The Pakistan Supreme Court has ordered the acquittal of an elderly Christian on death row for 23 years on a blasphemy conviction. His lawyer said the court determined a person of unsound mind could not be held liable for such a crime. In 2001, authorities reportedly arrested Anwar Kenneth after he was accused of writing
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Pope Leo: violence raging in Christian East with ‘a diabolical intensity’ that shames mankind
Pope Leo XIV has warned that violence against Christians in the East is raging “with a diabolical intensity” of the likes not seen before. The pontiff said it was “truly distressing” to see an intensity of violence “previously unknown”, as well as the principle of “might makes right” prevailing in so many of today’s conflicts,
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Embrace Jesus to overcome ‘fatigue of living’ in modernity, says Pope
Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholics to trust in Jesus’s healing power in order to deal with the “fatigue of living” that increasingly afflicts modern societies. Speaking on Wednesday, 25 June, the pontiff cautioned that Christians sometimes approach Jesus in a superficial way, “without truly believing in his power”. “A very widespread ailment of our
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We have let greedy capitalism rewrite Britain’s Catechism
When Angus Hanton released Vassal State in April last year, he aimed his crosshairs at Britain’s economic servitude. It’s a sharp, absorbing read – a forensic dissection of how the UK has been reduced to little more than a corporate outpost for American capital. But if you stop at the spreadsheets, you miss the real
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BBC newsreader changes ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ live on air
A BBC News presenter has received international attention after an incident live on air over the weekend. Martine Croxall altered the wording of a script during a live broadcast by changing the phrase “pregnant people” to “women” while reporting on a heatwave-related health study. Croxall was reading out research findings from the London School of
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I believe in one God: unpacking the first article of the Nicene Creed
Every Sunday we say or sing at mass a text first formulated in 325 at the First Council of Nicaea, in a slightly expanded form adopted at the First Council of Constantinople in 381. I encapsulates central truths of the Christian gospel, which were much debated at the time. The first and most basic clause
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Cardinal Nichols: We will close Catholic hospices and care homes if MPs vote for assisted suicide
Dozens of Catholic hospices and care homes could be forced to close if MPs vote in favour of assisted suicide on Friday, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said. The Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales said it was not possible for Catholic institutions to abide by a legal duty
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Catholics urged to protest to MPs over hijack of Bill to allow abortion up to birth
The Archbishop of Liverpool has urged Catholics to write to their MPs to oppose hijacking amendments to a government Bill to allow abortion up to birth. Archbishop John Sherrington, the lead bishop for life issues of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, made his plea after Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi tabled the amendments to
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Brazilian nuns go viral after beatboxing on Catholic TV
Sisters Marizele Cassiano and Marisa de Paula, two Brazilian nuns from the Copiosa Redenção congregation, have gone viral after an impromptu beatboxing session. The nuns appeared on the Catholic TV channel Pai Eterno, hosted by the recently ordained Deacon Giovane Bastos of the Redemptorist order. When asked about their vocation, Sister Marizele began to sing
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INTERVIEW: Jane Herrernan, the woman who saved Catholic schools in East London
Few people have made a greater impact on Catholic education in the United Kingdom than Jane Heffernan. With almost 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at Catholic schools, she has served as either headteacher or executive headteacher in all the Catholic secondary schools across the London boroughs of Hackney and Islington, and she
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Government criticised for rating assisted suicide law by cash saved in patient deaths
Bioethicists have severely criticised a “truly sinister” government impact assessment of the assisted suicide Bill for focusing on the money that might be saved from doctors helping patients to kill themselves. The Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre, which serves the Catholic Church in the UK and Ireland, also criticised the government for underestimating the numbers of
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‘This is horror’: Thirty-six Nigerian Christians murdered in three-day bloodbath
Dozens of Christians have been murdered in attacks on settlements in Nigeria’s Middle Belt by militant members of the Fulani herder community. According to information from Makurdi Diocese received by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), 36 people were killed, nine injured and two abducted in raids between 24th and 26th May.
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The high, holy and failing days of Britain: the relevance of St Augustine and St Bede today
If you were a British Christian living in the 6th century, you would have had enough reason to feel abandoned by God. The Roman legions had returned home, and the Anglo-Saxons had arrived, establishing their own kingdoms and religion. Where once Christianity grew, there was now Woden, Friga and Thunor. But, in 596AD, Pope Gregory
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Archbishop Gänswein on Pope Leo XIV: ‘This Pope inspires hope, hope, hope’
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the former Prefect of the Papal Household, described the results of the recent papal conclave as marking the beginning of a new era for the Church – one marked by clarity, stability and a decisive break from the confusion of the past. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Gänswein described the
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Dates and details of King Charles’s Vatican visit announced
The details for an April state visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Holy See have been confirmed. An audience with Pope Francis is planned though it has not been confirmed due to his ongoing health problems. The UK monarchs will be in Italy from 7–10 April, with the first part of
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Dates and details of King Charles’s Vatican visit announced
The details for an April state visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Holy See have been confirmed. An audience with Pope Francis is planned though it has not been confirmed due to his ongoing health problems. The UK monarchs will be in Italy from 7–10 April, with the first part of
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Pope admitted to hospital for tests and treatment due to ongoing bronchitis
Pope Francis has been admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital today for tests and treatment related to his ongoing bronchitis. In a 14 February statement, the Vatican announced that “at the end of his audiences, Pope Francis admitted himself to the Agostino Gemelli Hospital for some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment for
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Wrestling with God – and Jordan Peterson taking on cosmic questions
We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine Jordan B Peterson Portfolio, £30, 576 pages The idea of a faithful individual striving to live in right relationship with the divine, despite their shortcomings, dominates Jordan Peterson’s latest work. The title of the book refers to Jacob wrestling with an angel and his subsequent naming
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Don’t rush to claim Syria’s Christians are safe – we’re dealing with Islamists in a volatile situation
“Syria is free,” according to Washington Post columnist Joe Rogin. “The rebels won. The people liberated themselves from tyranny,” he went on. While the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad is finally over, this does not mean his replacements are necessarily interested in the kind of “freedom” you and I would recognise as such. Assad’s Iran-
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