Religia

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

Churches in London may be forced to close due to changes to the congestion charge, faith leaders have warned.more

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. more

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

Places of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week.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

Mosques in an east London borough have broadcast the call to prayer publicly for the first time due to the lockdown during Ramadan.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

Health minister Matt Hancock has thanked Muslims for continuing to social distance during Ramadan, which started today.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

The Archbishop of Canterbury has told of the "heroism" of key workers and NHS staff in a stirring Easter message delivered from his kitchen.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

For the first time since 1933, there were no traditional processions of many weeks in Spain, and the epidemic forced cancellation of over 10,000. events related to Easter - wrote the daily "El Mundo". Traditional celebrations, masses and prayers have been transferred to the internet.more