Scientologists in Haiti: Volunteers or Vultures? Catholic Online 2/9/2010, by Randy Sly A mixture of messages is coming out of Haiti regarding the real impact of Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) – It has almost been a month since Haiti was rocked with a 7.0 scale earthquake that devastated the capital of Port au Prince and much of the ...
Study: 56% of Young Adults in New Sexual Relationship Infected with HPV LifeSiteNews 2/5/2010, by John-Henry Westen HPV, a virus which condoms cannot protect against, is the leading cause of cervical cancer. MONTREAL (LifeSiteNews.com) - If ever there was a reason for parents to warn their teens off sexual encounters before marriage, a recent study has found it. The groundbreaking study of couples found more ...
Vatican releases first report on religious death toll in Haiti Catholic News Agency 2/3/2010 The Vatican has released its intial assesment of the number of male and female religious who died in the cataclysmic event. VATICAN CITY (CNA) - Twenty days after Haiti was ravaged by the 7.0 earthquake, the Vatican has released its intial assesment of the number of male and female religious who ...
Council for the Family Preparing 'Vademecum' on the Family Vatican Information Service 2/9/2010 'The family founded on marriage between a man and a woman is the greatest help that can be given to children.' VATICAN CITY (VIS) - Monday morning, February 8, 2010 in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family, a dicastery ...
Anglican Archbishop declares Anglo-Catholic converts not proper Catholics. Catholic Online 2/9/2010, by Randy Sly Archbishop of York calls those who come into full communion Anglican émigrés, raising eyebrows among Anglicans and Catholics alike. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) – Interviewed on the BBC Radio Ulster’s “Sunday Sequence” program, Dr. John Sentamu, the Anglican Archbishop of York, stated that ...
Vatican newspaper calls new stem cell source 'future of medicine' Catholic News Agency 2/5/2010 'We are studying a particular type of stem cell, the amniotic stem cell, that represents a 'first' in the course of our existence.' ROME, Italy (CNA) - The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano republished an interview on Wednesday detailing current research on a new source of stem cells that is ...
New Iraqi Archbishop's Mission to Bring Hope to the Faithful Zenit News Agency 1/29/2010 Archbishop Emil Shimoun Nona Calls for Political Pressure to Stop Anti-Christian Persecution. MOSUL (Zenit.org) - The new archbishop of Mosul of the Chaldeans is underlining his mission to bring hope to the persecuted and suffering Christians in his region.
Archbishop Emil Shimoun Nona, 42, ...
Dina and Maher El-Gohary, Persecuted Coptic Christians Ask Obama for Help Catholic Online 1/27/2010, by Deacon Keith Fournier 'We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father.' CAIRO, EGYPT (Catholic Online) – The history of Christianity in Egypt goes as far back as the visit of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. (Matt. 2) To the Christians who live in this historic land ...
Bishop Elliott Explains the Anglican Ordinariate: 'United in Communion But Not Absorbed' Catholic Online 2/6/2010, by Deacon Keith Fournier 'The Pastor of the nations is reaching out to give you a special place within the Catholic Church. United in communion, but not absorbed.' MELBOURNE, Australia (Catholic Online) - Catholic Online readers throughout the Globe have shown tremendous interest in the coming entry into full communion of ...
National Congress of Filipino Priests Underway Asia News 1/28/2010, by Santosh Digal Over 5 thousand priests attended the meeting organized by the Conference of Bishops on the occasion of the Year for Priests. MANILA (AsiaNews) - Entrusting oneself to Christ’s love, serving the Church and renewing pastoral zeal. This is the aim of over 5 thousand priests who are participating in ...
Study: Most Darfur Deaths Due to Disease, Not Violence Catholic Online 1/24/2010, by Catholic Online WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) - A new study on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region finds that at least 80 percent of deaths in the war were caused by disease rather than violence.
The United Nations estimates that 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur since rebels and the Sudanese ...
Al Qaeda Threatens More U.S. Attacks Asia News 12/30/2009 The organization threatens more attacks against the West and the 'Crusaders'and praises the young Nigerian extremist. BEIRUT (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Al Qaeda claimed responsibility in an online statement for the failed plot to blow up a plane on Christmas Day and threatened more attacks against the ...