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The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Ignatius Zakka I., along with several bishops and archbishops of his church, has publicly thanked the Ambassador for Human Rights of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher, for the ...

- Building the Body of Christ. This will be the motto of Fr. John Rodrigues, whom Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed one of the two Auxiliary Bishops of the Indian Archdiocese of Bombay, headed by Cardinal Oswald Gracias. The other Auxiliary Bishop ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has endorsed recent measures taken by the federal government to check insurgency and rising wave of crime in parts of the country. President of CBCN, Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama said this in Abuja ...

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr Bishops kidnapped on Turkey's Syrian border are still alive and efforts are ongoing to secure their release, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has said. Officials from ...

A lawsuit filed against a US diocese and its bishop by a girl who was 2 when a priest took pornographic photos of her has tentatively been settled for USD 600,000, a lawyer for the girl said.

A Carnegie Mellon University student was charged Friday with indecent exposure by campus police after a Catholic bishop complained about her parading nude from the waist down while dressed as the pope. A male student who was nude also was charged, but it ...

Back in February 2013, Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio encouraged a diocesan conversation about gun control with the hope that in engaging this highly-charged topic, we might model the spiritual disciplines of ...

Leader of the Worcester Roman Catholic diocese receives ban and $900 fine for DUI hit and run Bishop Robert McManus from Massachusetts, the leader of the Worcester Roman Catholic diocese, in Rhode Island, has had his driving license revoked for six ...

Funeral services were held Thursday for Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, while the whereabouts of his anointed successor remained unclear amid a struggle for control between the Vatican and the ruling Communist Party. Jin died Saturday at age 96, leaving ...