The health condition of Benedict XVI, who suffers from a face rose that causes severe pain, is very bad, informed the German daily Passauer Neue Presse, citing his biographer Peter Seewald.more
Pope Francis announced that it was necessary to prepare for solutions to the greatest problems after the pandemic, which would be poverty and unemployment. During the meeting with the faithful in the Vatican, he appealed for the joint commitment of the government to defend labor.more
A volunteer assistant suspected of setting a French cathedral on fire has been rearrested, then indicted and detained in pre-trial custody by prosecutors.more
Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan signed a decree that formally transforms the former Byzantine basilica and later the mosque of the Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul into a mosque again. Earlier, the court annulled the 1934 government's decision to transform the mosque into a museum.more
Also, Christians are not "immune to sin" of injustice and indifference to the cries of others - today Pope Francis gave during a mass in the Vatican, on the seventh anniversary of his visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a symbol of the migration crisis.more
Sam El-Masry, a popular belly dancer from Egypt, was sentenced to three years in prison for publishing sexually challenging recordings on TikToku. Is the victim of a new strict law that was introduced in Egypt to tame the Internet space.more
The Italian daily La Repubblica published an appeal by a group of believers from Poland to Pope Francis to "rebuild" the Polish Church in which pedophilia occurred. The appeal was printed as a paid advertisement on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.more
Three quarters of Poles declare that during the pandemic their religious involvement remained at the same level as before. It increased in 12 percent According to the declarations, the most popular medium from which mass transmissions were received was television - according to the latest CBOS studymore
91 percent respondents declare themselves as believers. The percentage of non-believers is steadily growing and amounts to 8 percent. The number of deeply religious people is the same - according to CBOS research on the religiosity of Poles in the last 20 years.
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Christian leaders have welcomed the government’s announcement that places of worship in England will be allowed to reopen for individual prayer from 15 June, but Muslim and Jewish leaders said the move was not appropriate for the way they practise their faith.more
An English-language online exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope Saint John Paul II, was launched by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Manchester.more
For the first time in over two months, the faithful returned today to St. Peter's Square to hear and see Pope Francis. At noon he addressed everyone from the library at the Apostolic Palace, and then stood at the window and blessed those present.more
71.4 percent Poles assess the government's actions regarding the problem of pedophilia in the Catholic Church as insufficient; over 11.1 percent evaluated the work of those in power in this field. respondents - results from a survey conducted by IBRiS for Onet.more
"John Paul II changed the history of the world. It is thanks to him that thanks to Solidarity communism collapsed and we can create a free Poland over the years. We all owe him boundless gratitude and memory" - said today Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.more
During the Covid-19 epidemic, the almost forgotten word "solidarity" returned; a word that has always been dear to Poles and which is strongly associated with Pope John Paul II - the ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the UK Arkady Rzegocki wrote in the latest issue of the British Catholic weekly "Tablet".more
The walls of Russia's new Orthodox cathedral dedicated to the Armed Forces will be decorated with the faces of President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the MBKh News website reported Friday.more
Usually intended for shoes of the faithful, the shelves in the vestibule of one of Istanbul's mosques are lined with noodles, cookies and bottles of oil. Closed because of the coronavirus, the temple was transformed into a free minimarket for people without a livelihood.more
The parishes make calculations and inform how many people can be in particular churches and chapels during masses and services. This is connected with new regulations stating that one person per 15 sq m may stay in places of religious worship - informed Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik.more
Parish priest by day, DJ by night: Guilherme Peixoto is not your typical cleric. In fact, music is so important to him that last year, during a trip to the Vatican, he asked Pope Francis to bless his headphones. So when the coronavirus hit his tiny northern Portuguese town, he knew exactly how to help the faithful ward off isolation blues.more
Pope Francis has urged people to "not yield to fear" and focused on a "message of hope" as he led an Easter eve mass in an empty St Peter's Basilica amid the coronavirus pandemic.more