Mon 13 January 2025: US President Joe Biden has awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian honor granted by the president. The White House in a statement on Saturday said Biden bestowed the award to the pope during a phone call. It described the pontiff as “the People’s Pope […]
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Sat 11 January 2025: Australia has seen a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the last year, including graffiti on buildings and cars. A synagogue in Sydney has been daubed in anti-Semitic graffiti, police said, a day after the anti-Semitic vandalism of a separate synagogue in the New South Wales state capital. According to police officials, vandals […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: The appeal comes after at least 14 incidents of violence, threats, and disruptions targeted Christian gatherings across the country during the Christmas season, the leaders and church groups wrote in a press release. New Delhi: Over 400 senior Christian leaders and 30 church groups on Tuesday (December 31) have issued an urgent […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: Pope Francis on Wednesday urged world leaders to annul the debt of poorer countries, the official Vatican news agency reported. Speaking after his traditional New Years’ Day Angelus, the pontiff said: “I encourage leaders of nations with Christian traditions to set an example by canceling or significantly reducing the debts of […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Pope Francis has denounced the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza while appealing for the release of captives and a ceasefire in the war-torn coastal enclave. In his Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and world) address on Wednesday at the Vatican, Francis also appealed for peace in Ukraine and Sudan. “I […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Pope Francis doubled down Sunday on his condemnation of Israel’s strikes on the Gaza Strip, denouncing their “cruelty” for the second time in as many days despite Israel accusing him of “double standards”. “And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Russia’s top Islamic authority has issued a ruling permitting polygamy in specific circumstances, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Mufti Ildar Alyautdinov, deputy chairman of the Ulama Council of Russia’s Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM), announced the decision and outlined the conditions for religious polygamy or, more specifically polygyny, the practice […]
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Thu 19 December 2024: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has announced that residents of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries can perform the lesser pilgrimage, Umrah, at any time of the year. Al Arabiya reports that several options are available for organising Umrah. Pilgrims can purchase packages through the official Nusuk platform, the kingdom’s digital […]
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Wed 18 December 2024: Pope Francis has said that he escaped two attempts on his life during his historic visit to Iraq in 2021. He made this claim in his upcoming autobiography, which will be released next month. On Tuesday (Dec 17), Italian media published an excerpt from the autobiography titled “Hope” which talked about […]
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Sat 14 December 2024: Indonesia on Thursday opened a landmark tunnel connecting Muslim and Christian places of worship. President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated the Tunnel of Friendship connecting Istiqlal Mosque to the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in the capital Jakarta. “This tunnel is not only a symbol of harmony between religious communities, but also reflects the spirit of unity and […]
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