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India’s Catholic Church has strongly condemned the suicide bomb attacks at two Coptic churches in northern Egypt on Palm Sunday killing at least 44 people and expressed its closeness with Egypt’s Christians and people. “Such inhuman acts cannot be tolerated and while we welcome the decision of the Egyptian Government to declare a three month Emergency, we also hope that the perpetrators of this brutal inhuman acts will be traced and punished,” wrote Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) wrote in a statement issued on Monday. Suicide bombers struck hours apart at St. George’s Church in Tanta city and St. Mark’s Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria on April 9, killing 44 people and turning Palm Sunday services into scenes of blood, horror and outrage. However, Coptic Pope Tawadros II who was leading the Palm Sunday service in St. Mark’s was unhurt. &n...
London, England, Apr 10, 2017 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. John Reid, a Roman Catholic priest serving in County Durham, England, has been spared an 18-month jail sentence for stealing more than £50,000 from his parish, which he had been spending on his housekeeper and her two daughters.According to media reports, the 70-year-old priest was given an 18-month suspended sentence after admitting to fraud by abuse of position at an earlier hearing. He has agreed to repay the money within three months. “The defendant was arrested in May 2014 at St. Patrick's Presbytery, Stockton. It appeared that the defendant was virtually living as a family with Gillian Leddy and her daughters, Veronica and Alice,” said Jane Waugh, the prosecutor in Fr. Reid's case, according to the Telegraph.“There had been dramatic increases within the categories of General Administration, House Keeping, and Hospitality. This would appear to be because Gillian, Alice, and Veron...
Vatican City, Apr 10, 2017 / 04:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the latest Pope Francis-inspired initiative for the poor opened up in Rome – a new laundromat, with washing, drying and ironing services for those without a home or a fixed living situation."The Pope's Laundry,” as it is being called, is organized in partnership with the Community of Sant'Egidio and will be run by volunteers who will wash, dry and iron the clothes and blankets of those who otherwise can’t clean their belongings.The initiative was born out of an invitation from Pope Francis in his apostolic letter Misericordia et misera, “to give a ‘concrete’ experience of the grace of the Jubilee Year of Mercy,” an April 10 communique from the Vatican stated.As Francis wrote at the end of the Year of Mercy, the announcement said, “To want to be close to Christ demands to be near to our brothers, because nothing is more pleasing to the Father than a concrete ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The path that took Deven Black to his gritty death in a rundown homeless shelter was as baffling as it was tragic....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel closed its Taba border crossing to Egypt Monday following a warning by its anti-terrorism office and intelligence reports of an "imminent" militant attack there. The closure comes hours before the start of the Passover holiday, when Sinai is a popular destination for many Israelis....
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian Christians were burying their dead on Monday, a day after Islamic State suicide bombers killed at least 45 people in coordinated attacks targeting Palm Sunday services in two cities....
LUCCA, Italy (AP) -- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are gathering Monday for a meeting given urgency by the chemical attack in Syria and the U.S. military response, with participants aiming to pressure Russia to end its support for President Bashar Assad....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The unquenchable thirst for chatter about President Donald Trump has changed the dynamics of a fierce daytime television competition much as it has in late-night TV....
KHAZER, Iraq (AP) -- Six-year-old Mustafa suffers nightmares, cries at the sound of airplanes and occasionally wets himself, symptoms that worsened last year when an explosion in Mosul killed his cousin and wounded his father before his eyes....
