Hundreds mourn Catholic priest and Indigenous peace activist killed in southern Mexico
San Andres Larrainzar, Mexico AP Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm labourers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. It was a killing that many say was a tragedy foretold, in a state where drug cartels have caused thousands of people to flee […]
Mexican Indigenous priest killed leaving Sunday Mass
Updated: 12:25pm (AEDT) Mexico City Reuters A Mexican Catholic priest was killed on Sunday in the southern state of Chiapas after officiating a mass, his religious order and authorities said, marking the latest death in a recent wave of violence in the area. Marcelo Perez – who was Tzotzil, an Indigenous Maya group native to […]
Belarus human rights group denounces detention of priest who posted Ukrainian flag on social media
Tallinn, Estonia AP The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna on Tuesday denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media post. Andrzej Jukhniewicz was arrested in early May and charged with conducting an unauthorised picket for displaying the flag. Belarus […]
Lifestory: City of Los Angeles proclaims 19th May ‘Father Greg Boyle Day’
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports that the proclamation comes just two weeks after the priest who founded Homeboy Industries received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden…
“I can be where the young people are”: As a DJ, village priest in Portugal cues up faith and electronic dance music for global youth
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on Catholic priest and DJ, Fr Guilherme Peixoto…
Catholic priest kidnapped in northern Nigeria, diocese says
Kaduna, Nigeria Reuters A Nigerian priest was kidnapped from his home in northern Kaduna state, the local Roman Catholic diocese said in a statement on Tuesday, in the first such reported abduction of a clergyman in the state since July. Armed gangs are rife across northern Nigeria where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and […]
Catholic priest abducted in Nigeria, diocese says
Kano, Nigeria Reuters A Nigerian Catholic priest was abducted from his rectory in the town of Zambina in the northern state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the local Catholic diocese said on Monday. It said parishioners went to look for Father Emmanuel Silas after waiting in vain for him to conduct the […]
Gunmen kill priest on his way home from church in Pakistan
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Gunmen killed a Christian priest and wounded another as the clerics drove home from church in Pakistan’s north-western city of Peshawar on Sunday, police said. Two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on the car on the city’s ring-road, killing Pastor William Siraj instantly, officers added. A relative mourns the death of […]
Haiti priest recounts abduction by gang holding missionaries
San Juan, Puerto Rico AP Rev Jean-Nicaisse Milien felt the cool barrel of a gun against his right ear. The Haitian priest and nine other people had just been kidnapped while driving through the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in early April. It was around 7am and they were en route to celebrate the […]
Updated: French priest killed by cathedral fire suspect – minister
Updated 8.45am, 10th August (AEST)Paris, FranceAP A priest was killed Monday in a small town in western France allegedly by a Rwandan man he had housed who was already under investigation for setting a fire to the Cathedral of Nantes a year ago, France’s interior minister said. Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin spoke after meeting with […]