Piotr G., a well-known Polish Catholic priest who has ministered in the British Isles for many years, including in the past as an exorcist, has been charged with 10 offences of a sexual nature against minors, the Catholic diocese of Portsmouth in the south of England announced yesterday.more
35 percent students of Viennese primary schools are Muslims, forming the largest religious group in the capital of Austria - according to research by local education authorities. The local authorities want to replace religion classes with a compulsory subject called "Life in a democracy".more
Francis will be the first pope in history to guest at the G7 leaders' summit today. During a several-hour visit to the meeting venue - Borgo Egnazia in Puglia in southern Italy - he will hold 10 bilateral talks, including with the presidents of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the US, Joe Biden.more
"Homophobic gaffe", "linguistic slip-up" - this is how the Italian press writes today about the phrase used by Pope Francis, who, according to the media, when speaking against the presence of homosexuals in seminaries, used an offensive phrase saying that there was too much "gayism".more
A London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint.
Carlo Acutis was a computer prodigy who helped to spread Roman Catholic teaching online before his death in 2006. On Thursday, Pope Francis decreed that a second posthumous miracle has been attributed to Acutis, qualifying the teenager for canonisation.more
In the first year of the pandemic, the percentage of people declaring themselves to be believers ceased to exceed 90 per cent and has been visibly declining ever since. At the same time, the percentage of Poles classifying themselves as rather or completely non-believers has been increasing - in recent times clearly - according to a CBOS survey.more
More and more parents in Germany are turning to counseling services because their Christian children want to convert to Islam "in order to no longer be outsiders at school," the Bild tabloid website reported, citing a security official.more
Pedro Sanchez's government yesterday announced financial compensation for victims of sexual abuse committed by people of the Church, both clergy and lay people, employed in its structures. He stressed that the burden of compensation should be placed on the shoulders of the Church.more
A priest of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa serving in Great Britain, who - according to media reports - posed in a calendar for gays, has been removed from ministry and from holding all offices and from pastoral work - the Częstochowa curia reported.more
The Portuguese prosecutor general's office has discontinued most of the cases conducted in connection with reports of sexual abuse of church people. They were brought into prosecution mainly as a result of the work of an independent commission, the so-called Vita Groups.more
44 per cent of respondents rate the functioning of the Roman Catholic Church positively, while 45 per cent rate it negatively. - according to the latest CBOS poll. Opinions are slightly worse than six months ago.more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government yesterday announced rules to implement the controversial Citizenship Bill 2019, which excludes Muslims. The decision came just weeks before an election in which the Hindu nationalist leader will seek a third term.more
Last year, the number of anti-Semitic incidents relating to the Holocaust more than doubled in Great Britain compared to 2022, according to data from the Jewish charity Community Security Trust (CST), quoted by Sky News.more
Three-quarters of Poles (75 per cent) surveyed agree with the statement that the Catholic Church in Poland should be financed by contributions from the faithful; 18.7 per cent of respondents are of the opposite opinion, according to an IBRiS poll commissioned by Radio ZET.more
51 per cent of respondents believe that religion lessons should be held in facilities belonging to religious associations, such as churches, while 33 per cent want them to remain in schools, according to the latest poll by the Pollster Research Institute for the 'Super Express'.more
In Ruesselsheim, Hesse, unknown perpetrators beheaded figures from a Christmas nativity scene, the Hessenschau portal reported. On Sunday, the police found a destroyed nativity scene in the market square. Human-sized Styrofoam figures depicted Mary and Joseph with baby Jesus, as well as the Three Kings and a donkey.more
The Church of England began giving blessings to same-sex couples yesterday. This follows a compromise decision in February this year, which maintained the doctrine that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, but agreed to bless single-sex couples.more
If the country does not get the migration crisis under control, there is a risk of a "terrible awakening", which would result in the final collapse of Germany, said CDU MP and former Health Minister Jens Spahn in an interview with Bild.more
In contrast to previous years, there will no longer be a Christmas tree at the kindergarten in Hamburg-Lokstedt. The reason for this step was communicated to parents in writing. "We have decided to do this as a team because we do not want to exclude any child and their faith," - wrote the letter, quoted by the portal of the daily newspaper 'Welt'.more
In 2020, 2,813 marriages were declared invalid in the Catholic Church in Poland - that's 1.8 percent of the total number of marriages performed that year. Less than 5 percent of those granted a civil divorce are taken to church courts, according to the ISKK report "Annulment of Marriage in the Catholic Church in Poland."more
The Anglican Church intends to soon begin issuing the sacrament of blessing to same-sex couples. The change was passed by a majority vote during the last meeting of the General Synod.more
A survey conducted by the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) shows that for eight out of ten respondents, religion is of little or no importance. Already next year, the percentage of people professing the Christian religion in Germany may fall below 50 percent.more
"Life. My Story in History" - this is the title of Pope Francis' autobiography, which will be published next spring in many countries, including Italy, the US, Mexico and Poland. Its publication has been announced by a British-American publishing house. The pope is working on the book with Italian Mediaset TV's Vatican specialist Fabio Marchese Ragona.more