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And churches used to dwindling congregations are delighted to see numbers boosted by worshippers of all agesFather Happy Jacob has a reason to be cheerful. When he started St Thomas’s Indian Orthodox Church in Liverpool in 2002, his congregation number…
Read MoreTourists gather in Philippines for cross nailings north of Manila despite church leaders frowning upon the traditionEight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of …
Read MoreFather Joe arrived in Bangkok in the 1970’s. Fifty years, 15 schools and 30,000 students later, he credits the community with saving him“This other priest is always drunk, so you go take his place.”With that simple instruction, Joseph H Maeir, a Cathol…
Read MoreCatholic cleric and fellow activists were arrested for ‘colluding with foreign forces’ under Beijing-imposed national security lawA 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five prominent pro-democracy campaigners have pleaded not guilty in court in Hong Kong…
Read MoreMy brother John Prior, who has died aged 75, trained as a Roman Catholic priest in the UK before spending most of his life on the island of Flores in Indonesia, working within parishes, then as an academic theologian, and always as a man passionate abo…
Read MoreFigures represent first time abuse allegations against the church in New Zealand have been collated in one placeNew Zealand’s Catholic church has admitted that 14% of its diocesan clergy have been accused of abusing children and adults since 1950. The …
Read MoreSouth Korean president meets pontiff and gives him a cross made of barbed wire taken from demilitarised zone The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has made a fresh attempt to have Pope Francis visit North Korea, at a meeting at the Vatican where th…
Read MoreFrancis ‘moved’ by Angela Merkel’s words on western intervention – in fact said by Russian presidentPope Francis has criticised the west’s recent involvement in Afghanistan – inadvertently quoting Vladimir Putin in doing so.In a wide-ranging interview …
Read MoreThe trial of defrocked priest Richard Daschbach, charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls, is dividing the small, deeply Catholic countryLita grew up in a poor family in a hamlet surrounded by the spectacular mountains of Oecusse in Timor-Leste. When she …
Read MorePope addresses fewer than 200 people in St Peter’s; China and US take action against UK amid concerns about new variant; South Korea reports daily case record Staff at UK coronavirus testing lab hit by outbreakJohnson refuses to rule out national lockd…
Read MoreBeijing says pontiff’s remarks have ‘no factual basis’ despite evidence a million of the Muslim minority group are being held in campsChina has dismissed criticism of its treatment of Uighurs in a new book by Pope Francis in which he describes the “per…
Read MoreFrancis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new bookPope Francis has for the first time called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for year…
Read MoreFather Stan Swamy, who was helping indigenous people fight mining corporates, is far from a violent MaoistA frail, ailing 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy, has become the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India. He is incarcerated…
Read MorePope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state who says the Catholic church too soft on BeijingMike Pompeo will visit the Vatican to protest against the imminent renewal of a deal between the Catholic church and China, which the US sec…
Read MoreReligious authorities around the world limit contact and close places of worshipCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIranian police have dispersed crowds who forced their way into two popular shrines soon after they were closed b…
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