News of religion

Vatican closes Nicaragua embassy amid escalating row

19-03-2023 09:01 Bilateral relations have been on brink of collapse after Pope Francis referred to the government of socialist president Daniel Ortega as a dictatorship.

CHURCH ABUSES

Pope tells LatAm Church to ‘prioritise’ sexual abuse fight

14-03-2023 17:21 Pope Francis sends message to special congress in Latin America, calling on religious leaders to "prioritise" the battle against sexual abuses and acknowledging that the "mishandling" of such cases represents a "clear danger" to the Catholic Church.

OBITUARY

Vatican confirms death of former pope Benedict XVI aged 95

31-12-2022 09:19 Former pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced on New Year's Eve, almost a decade after he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Catholic controversy over two popes in the Vatican

31-12-2022 09:13 Shock retirement in 2013 of pope Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday aged 95, raised serious questions within the Church about the extent to which there could be two "men in white" at the Vatican.

GUEST COLUMN

Islam: a guardian or a threat to religious freedom?

25-11-2022 13:45 As a representative of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Argentina, whose motto is "Love for all, Hatred for none," I express my position to promote religious freedom.

BRAZIL ELECTION 2022

Battle for religious vote turns Brazil election into holy war

27-10-2022 17:31 Religion plays an increasingly big role in politics in Brazil and both Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have turned Brazil's polarising presidential race into a holy war.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

In first, Pope names three women to Dicastery for Bishops

13-07-2022 14:00 Pontiff names two nuns and a laywoman, Argentine María Lia Zervino, to the Vatican department that helps choose new bishops – the first time women have been allowed to serve on the body.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Esteban Bullrich: ‘When the future is uncertain, all you have is the present’

13-05-2022 12:21 Former senator and education minister Esteban Bullrich on being diagnosed with ALS, faith and why Argentina must overcome the ‘grieta’ rift that dominates the country’s politics.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Interview

Marwan Sarwar Gill: ‘I’m a Muslim – ask me anything’

23-04-2022 04:24 President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Argentina on misconceptions, the meaning of Islam and setting up an Ahmadiyya community from scratch in the country.

by Erica Wu

EASTER WEEKEND

Venezuela's 'palmeros' come down from mountain for Palm Sunday

13-04-2022 20:21 Tradition, of more than 250 years, is in the registry of good safeguarding practices of UNESCO and aspires to be a World Heritage Site.

RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE

Pope visits Russian embassy to express "concern about the war" in Ukraine

25-02-2022 23:48 Pope Francis visited the Russian Embassy in the Holy See on Friday, making an unusual gesture to express his “concern about the war” in Ukraine.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Cardinal slams sex abuse cover-ups at Vatican priest forum

17-02-2022 14:58 An influential cardinal opened a Vatican symposium on the priesthood Thursday apologising for "unworthy ministers" and the cover-up of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, before an audience that included Pope Francis.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in German abuse cases

20-01-2022 15:21 Former pope Benedict XVI knowingly failed to take action to stop four priests accused of child sex abuse in Munich in the 1980s, according to a damning independent report published Thursday that risks shattering the ex-pontiff's reputation.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Fewer Catholics in Europe, more in Africa, Americas

21-10-2021 10:49 The Catholic Church continues to lose followers in Europe, but numbers are booming in Africa and the Americas, according to figures released by the Vatican on Thursday.

FELIZ CUMPLE CRISTO

Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue celebrates 90th birthday

13-10-2021 09:16 Iconic statue that towers over Rio de Janeiro celebrates its 90th birthday with a Mass, new song and a new bottle of booze.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

'Massive' child sex abuse in French Catholic Church, inquiry finds

05-10-2021 12:17 French Catholic clergy sexually abused around 216,000 minors spanning seven decades since 1950, a "massive phenomenon" that was covered up by a "veil of silence," an independent commission said Tuesday.

COURTS

Santa Cruz: Priest jailed for 17 years for sexual abuse of two minors

10-09-2021 01:01 Priest Nicolás Parma sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of the sexual abuse of two seminarians in Santa Cruz Province.

ARGENTINE PONTIFF

Pope Francis leaves hospital after operation

14-07-2021 09:16 Pope Francis on Wednesday left the Rome hospital where the 84-year-old pontiff underwent an operation on his colon on July 4.

VATICAN

Blinken meets Pope Francis, speaks to Vatican on Venezuela

28-06-2021 15:07 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discusses crisis-torn Venezuela with Argentine pontiff during meeting at the Vatican.

ARGENTINE FONTIFF

Pope Francis: 'Private property is a secondary right'

18-06-2021 18:10 “We should continue exercising special care for the common good” – leader of Catholic Church speaks his mind during a video speech before the International Labour Organisation.