Jesuits ask victims to come forward in artist abuse case
Vatican City AP Pope Francis’ Jesuit order on Sunday asked any more victims to come forward with complaints against a famous Jesuit artist who was essentially let off the hook by the Vatican twice despite devastating testimony by women who said he sexually and spiritually abused them. The Jesuits asked for new evidence against Rev […]
Vote for me! Cyprus clerics scramble to get public vote
Nicosia, Cyprus Reuters Greek Cypriots went to the polls on Sunday in an electoral process for a new Archbishop to head an ancient church with modern interests from property management to breweries. The Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus is one of the few Orthodox Churches worldwide to recognise the independence of the fellow-Orthodox Church of […]
“Nobody represents me now”: Peru’s ‘forgotten people’ rage against political elite after Castillo arrest
ALEXANDER VILLEGAS and MARCO AQUINO, of Reuters, report…
In the Holy Land, a Christmas spirit is reborn
Beit Jala, West Bank Reuters In a small distillery just outside Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a clear liquid drips out of a copper pot still into a stainless steel barrel, ringing like church bells. Every year with the start of Advent, which arrives shortly after the end of the grape harvest, Nader Muaddi […]
Essay: Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in seventh-century England
TOBY MARTIN, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oxford, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what the discovery of the seventh century burial of a Christian woman in England’s Midlands reveals about wealthy Christian women of the period…