The prestigious TIME magazine, in its May 5 and May 12, 2014 issue, includes Our Holy Father Pope Francis in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world today.. The brief and comprehensive write-up on him was written by the 44th US...
North and South Korean military exchanged hundreds of artillery fires across their sea border, March 31. CNN Reported about 100 of the 500 shells North Korea fired into the Yellow Sea strayed across the line separating the two rival countries. “Some (North Korean) artillery fire landed in...
VATICAN, March 8, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope has announced the names of eight cardinals and seven lay experts from around the world chosen to serve in the newly-created Vatican Council for the Economy. “The members appointed to the Council are from various geographical areas, reflecting,...
The Asian Youth Day (AYD) 2014 is set to happen this August 10 to 17 in the Diocese of Daejon, South Korea. The invitation is addressed to the youth who will be coming together from different Asian countries. The event enables young people to gather...
VATICAN, March 27, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News).- During the March 27 meeting between Pope Francis and President Barack Obama, the two exchanged cordial discussion regarding the state of the Church in the U.S., as well as topics of shared interest. Lasting approximately 50 minutes long, the meeting...
MANILA, March 31, 2014— Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle received another task in the Roman Curia in what could be his sixth Vatican appointment. The latest is Pope Francis’ appointment of Tagle as member of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of...
MANILA, March 9, 2014— In countries like Germany and Austria, Filipino Catholics are forced to abandon their religion to avoid paying “Church tax” through their income tax, a priest said. Msgr. Joselito Asis, former Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines secretary general, said it is a...
The leader of Crimea’s Muslim Minority, the Tatars, warned about possible bloodshed in Crimea and southern Ukraine. “Our largest, biggest concern is about the possibility of clashes, of large scale bloodshed in Crimea,” said Mustafa Dzhemilev, also a member of Ukraine’s parliament said in a report...
VATICAN, March 8, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Saturday sent a message to participants in an international symposium on the religious life, encouraging them to live their vows in an authentic manner. “What is not helpful is a theoretical poverty, but the poverty that is...
VATICAN City, Feb 27, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News)– In his daily homily Pope Francis spoke of the harm done when Christians don’t practice what they preach, noting that this incoherence leads others away from the Church and often brings scandal. “When there is no Christian coherency, and...
