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Suicide bombers are not ‘martyrs’ says Pope Francis

Suicide bombers are not ‘martyrs’ says Pope Francis

Pope Francis has repudiated the idea that suicide bombers can be considered “martyrs”, saying true martyrs do not harm others but rather are meek, honest and persecuted for their faith as true children of God. “Christians are repelled by the idea that suicide bombers can be called ‘martyrs’. They are not martyrs. There’s nothing in […]

Pope Gives Nigerian Priests An Ultimatum – You’ll Be Fired If You Don’t Obey

Pope Gives Nigerian Priests An Ultimatum – You’ll Be Fired If You Don’t Obey

Pope Francis has laid down an ultimatum to defiant Nigerian priests saying that they will lose their jobs if you don’t obey him and their bishop. The catholicherald.co.uk report that clergy in Nigerian diocese must write to Holy Father asking for forgiveness by July 9. The report stated that Pope Francis gave the priests in […]

Canada’s Trudeau asks Pope to apologize for Catholic Church’s abuse of indigenous children

Canada’s Trudeau asks Pope to apologize for Catholic Church’s abuse of indigenous children

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize for decades of abuse suffered by indigenous children in schools run by the Catholic Church. Canada’s “residential schools” system was set up in the late 19th century to assimilate native peoples into Canadian society. Children were separated from their families in […]

Herald reporters on trips with President Mugabe receive $1,000 per day allowance

Herald reporters on trips with President Mugabe receive $1,000 per day allowance

Despite his advancing years and increasing frailty, 93-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe shows few signs of losing his love for foreign travel, a predilection that is costing his cash-strapped country dear. Having racked up 200,000 air miles since the start of 2016 and outspent the parliamentary budget on trips abroad, Mugabe jetted off to the […]

Pope Francis gave Donald Trump a 192-page letter he wrote on climate change

Pope Francis gave Donald Trump a 192-page letter he wrote on climate change

Donald Trump was given a gift during his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican: a papal letter detailing why the world should fight against climate change. Pope Francis issued the encyclical in 2015, just months before nearly 200 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. The agreement is considered a large part […]

Bombing reported near church in Egyptian city of Tanta

Bombing reported near church in Egyptian city of Tanta

Two bomb blasts have hit Coptic churches in Egypt today, with the latest blast in front of a church in Alexandria,  marking a day of carnage on Palm Sunday, the holiest day for the Coptic community. The blast occurred hours after a bombing rocked a Coptic church in Tanta in Egypt’s Nile Delta, killing at […]

Pope apologises for Catholic church being close to Hutu-led govt in 1994 Rwanda genocide when 800,000 mostly Tutsis were killed

Pope apologises for Catholic church being close to Hutu-led govt in 1994 Rwanda genocide when 800,000 mostly Tutsis were killed

Pope Francis has plead for forgiveness for “the sins and failings of the Church and its members” implicated in the 1994 Rwanda genocide that killed about 800,000 people. The pontiff “conveyed his profound sadness, and that of the Holy See and of the Church, for the genocide against the Tutsi”, the Vatican said in a […]

Pope has urged having fewer children if “you cannot bring them up properly,” claims Vatican academy member

Pope has urged having fewer children if “you cannot bring them up properly,” claims Vatican academy member

“We need at some point to have a limited number of people which is why Pope Francis and his three most recent predecessors have always argued that you should not have more children than you can bring up properly,” a panelist at a Vatican-run workshop on “how to save the natural world” claimed on Thursday.  […]

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Calls for National Prayers to End Conflict

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Calls for National Prayers to End Conflict

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has announced a National Day of Prayer for peace and forgiveness and urged citizens to turn out in high numbers. “As your leader and the Patron for the National Dialogue, I am obliged to release this public statement to inform all our citizens and friends about the planned National Day […]

Pope Francis suggests ‘better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic’

Pope Francis suggests ‘better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic’

In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning Mass in his residence, he said: “It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life.” “There are those who say ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this and that association’,” the head […]

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