BRAZIL - 28 seminarians being trained to combat the challenge of proliferating sects Brazil still holds onto its place as the most populous Catholic nation on earth, yet the percentage of Catholics in the country continues to fall. Today only around 72% of the more than 190 million Brazilians still declare [...]

BULGARIA - Franciscan Sisters' apostolate with children and lonely elderly Bulgaria is now a member of the European Union, but despite this, around a fifth of the 7.1 million or so inhabitants of this Southeast European nation still live in poverty. In fact one in 10 people are even defined as [...]

ETHIOPIA - New chapel in one of the remotest regions of the country  The region of Benishangul-Gumuz lies in the far west of Ethiopia, on the border with Sudan, and is one of the poorest and most underdeveloped regions in the country. It has a population of almost 990,000, a [...]

IRAQ - Church announces survival plan for displaced Christians Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil has unveiled plans to provide a future for Iraq's displaced Christians - despite fresh reports showing the extent of the destruction of their homes in the Nineveh Plains.Archbishop Warda said the Churches aim to rebuild "so that [...]

CONGO - Framework Agreement to govern Church - state relations signed  The Holy See and the Republic of the Congo have finalised a framework agreement on the relations between the Catholic Church and the state. The agreement was signed at the Palace of the People of the Republic of the [...]

SOUTH SUDAN - Survival is a daily struggle for ordinary citizens South Sudan, located in the heart of Africa, is the youngest nation in the world; it gained independence from Sudan in July 2011. Two years later, a civil war broke out, pitting the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) against [...]

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SAN ĠORĠ PRECA – L-GĦALLIEM TAL-PINNA F’għeluq il-137 sena minn twelidu – 12 ta’ Frar, 1880.Josette Spiteri SDC – membru tas-Soċjetà tal-Museum Għad hawn ħafna nies fostna li kellhom ix-xorti li laħqu ħaj lil San Ġorġ Preca. Dawn ħutna ċertament li kellhom u għad għandhom vantaġġ fuq nies bħali li ma [...]

SWEDEN - Midwife denied work for refusing to carry out abortions Ellinor Grimmark, a Swedish midwife who objects to abortion because of her Christian beliefs, is appealing to a labor tribunal after being turned down for jobs at three local clinics. Grimmark, is suing the Joenkoeping regional health authority on grounds [...]