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A female Jehovah’s Witness has been sentenced to two years in a Russian prison for practicing her faith, marking the first time the country has imprisoned a woman since a 2017 ruling that declared the faith group “extremist.” Valentina Baranovskaya, 69, was sentenced Wednesday along with her son.
Across this country, it seems everyone is up in arms about immigrants and refugees. Mostly, this is left as a political issue. But for Christians, how to
Catholic bishops across Europe have criticized a European Parliament resolution on Poland’s abortion law.
Pope Francis on Wednesday named a specialist in aging to be his personal doctor, after his previous physician died earlier this year.
A German Catholic bishop has publicly defended his support for a book of blessings and rites for homosexual unions.
President Mahmoud Abbas has guaranteed that at least seven seats of a new legislative council will go to Christians in the elections in the occupied territories to be held May 22. The measure would give Christians an outsized representation on the council.
The theologian Beate Gilles was elected general secretary of the German bishops’ conference on Monday, becoming the first woman to hold the post.
Pope Francis has asked the new bishop of a divided Swiss diocese to remain in the post for at least five years, serving beyond the customary retirement age of 75.
A Christian leader in Sudan who was arrested last week for speaking out against the burning of a church building was seized and taken to an unknown location on Saturday (Feb. 20), sources said.
The penance called for in the Christian life, and accentuated during Lent, can help us make sense of the sacrifices we have been called on to make during the coronavirus pandemic, a Vatican cardinal has said.
