Spanish Ombudsman Angel Gabilondo. Sat 28 October 2023: More than 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission. The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of more than 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent […]
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Fri 20 October 2023: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem released a statement late Thursday expressing its “strongest condemnation” of an Israeli airstrike on its church compound in the city of Gaza and stressing its commitment to its humanitarian duty to shelter civilians regardless of the Israeli “war crime.” In the statement published on its official […]
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Bishop José Álvarez Lagos surrounded by police officers on Aug. 4, 2022. | Diocese Media TV Merced / Diocese of Matagalpa Thu 19 October 2023: Nicaragua’s government has released a dozen Catholic priests jailed on a variety of charges and sent them to Rome, following negotiations with the Vatican. A government statement released late […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: According to a recent survey, one-third of Americans today prefer not to identify with any religion. In contrast to earlier comparable polls, the number of people who simply identified as Christians has also drastically decreased. Between May 11 and May 15, Associated Press-NORC conducted the survey. The poll of 1,680 adults […]
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A screengrab from video on social media where a 16-year-old boy is burning a copy of the Quran (Screengrab) According to the Indian American Muslim Council, it was not an isolated incident Thu 05 October 2023: A copy of the Quran was burnt in Illinois by a 16-year-old high school student, and rights organisations […]
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Tue 03 October 2023: A renowned American MMA fighter, Amber Leibrock, announced her conversion to Islam and expressed gratitude for her newfound faith in peace and happiness. Thirty-five-year-old converted to Islam in July this year and did not disclose this until recently. Taking to Instagram, Leibrock shared that she has had a “life-changing” few months […]
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Mon 02 October 2023: At least 10 people, including three children, were killed when the roof of a church collapsed in northern Mexico. The collapse happened on Sunday afternoon, as around 100 people were attending a baptism, at Santa Cruz church in Ciudad Madero. Sixty people were injured, and dozens were trapped underneath the rubble. […]
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Sun 01 October 2023: At a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Saturday, Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals, personally conferring the necessary crimson cap on the majority of the new church officials. Due to his senior age, 95-year-old Luis Pascual Dri of Argentina, one of the cardinals, chose not to attend […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: The International Olympic Committee has ruled that participants in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are free to wear a headscarf known as a hijab in the athletes’ village, just days after France’s sports minister barred it for the host country’s athletes. Although the IOC on Friday removed hijab restrictions in the […]
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Thu 28 September 2023: Georgetown University in Qatar plans to hold an international conference on Saturday to explore the root causes of the rising anti-Islamic sentiments. Themed “Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia”, the two-day event will bring together a host of scholars, activists, policymakers, and journalists. “This GU-Q conference promises to be an intellectually […]
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