A Sudanese family that expelled an 18-year-old relative from their home in a refugee camp in South Sudan for accepting Christ has dragged a pastor to jail on accusations of kidnapping, sources said.
An organist was found dead, buried in the rubble of a Croatian church following a structural collapse after an earthquake registering 6 4 on the Richter scale struck the eastern European nation
The Virgin Mary’s motherly care encourages us to use our God-given time for building up the world and peace, not destroying it, Pope Francis said on New Year’s Day.
According to the Catholic outlet AsiaNews, headquartered in Rome, Bishop Andrea Han Jingtao, 99, one of the most revered leaders of the underground Catholic Church in China, died yesterday evening, December 30th. Han Jingtao was the underground Bishop of Siping.
Because of sciatic pain, Pope Francis will not preside at the Vatican's liturgies on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, according to the Holy See press office.
In March, as the coronavirus pandemic shut down countries around the world, a massive earthquake struck Croatia. Now, as this tumultuous year closes, the Balkan nation again finds itself hit by earthquakes. And Baptists there are among those hurt by the quakes and ministering to their neighbors.
Despite fervent opposition from the nation s evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics, the national government of Argentina voted to allow elective abortion before 14 weeks gestation
After the Senate in Argentina legalized abortion in the early hours of Wednesday, December 30, the Argentine bishops' conference released a statement accusing the country's political leadership of being far away from the sentiment of the people and vowed to continue working “with firmness and passion in the care and service of life”.