Pope Francis, following the Angelus in St Peter’s Square on Sunday expressed his spiritual closeness to the victims, the wounded and the families affected by attacks, he said had "led to bloodshed in Texas, California and Ohio in the United States.At least nine people were killed
Five persons said to be pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) have been kidnapped.They were abducted along Sagamu-Benin-Ore Expressway on Thursday on their way to the church’s congress in Mowe, Ogun State.The Public Relations Officer of the Police Command, Abi
Hundreds of priests of Enugu Catholic Diocese on Friday protested against the murder of Reverend Father Paul Offu.Offu, the Parish Priest of St. James Greater Catholic Church, was allegedly shot dead on Thursday night by suspected Fulani herdsmen along Ihe-Agbudu Road in the Awgu Local Gover
The latest development in the worst Ebola crisis since the 2014-16 outbreak in West Africa has turned fears into reality.World Health Organization officials have feared Ebola's arrival in Goma for months. That’s because the city is home to a highly mobile population of more than 1 mil
The Gilroy Garlic Food Festival was winding down on Sunday afternoon when a 19 year-old man began shooting at random with a semi-automatic rifle. Three people died, including a 6-year old boy and a 13-year old girl. At least another 12 were injured. Police killed the shooter within minutes of him op
As up to 150 migrants are feared to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, Pope Francis made an appeal to the international community Sunday to act decisively to ensure the safety and dignity of migrants.“I learned with pain the news of the dramatic shipwreck that occu
"As a boy I felt the goal of my life was to become a priestâ€. This is how the conversation with Victor Pogrebnii begins. He did become a priest: he was ordained seven years ago, in Kyiv (Ukraine), on 7 January 2012. By that time, he was already 66 years old and a grandfather, and had spent
Scalabrinian Missionaries in Brazil say the murder of an indigenous leader in the Amazon shines the light on a “truly alarming†situation that allows for the destruction of an extraordinary habitat for economic gain.Emrya Wajãpi, leader of the indigenous Wajãpi peop
At 5pm on Friday, August 2, the first visitors will be welcomed into the Alpine home where Albino Luciani grew up.The village where he was born, in the magnificent Dolomite Mountains, 976 meters above sea level, is called Canale d’Agordo. It was once an economic hub for the entire
The Vatican reported Sunday that bones discovered in previously hidden ossuaries pre-date the 20th century – and therefore cannot be the remains of a Vatican teen who went missing in the 1980s.Hundreds of partially intact bones and thousands of bone fragments were studied by a forensi