The Jesuit Institute has launched a new documentary on people’s experience of crime in one of Cape Town’s most notorious townships. Titled Cape Town Exposed Beyond the Beaches, the film is freely available on...
By CNS – Catholic leaders cancelled Sunday Masses as Sri Lanka’s churches remained closed for a second week for fear of new terrorist attacks after the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed more than...
By Michael Sainsbury – Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said he is struggling following the Easter bombings in his country “because there are no words with which I can console my people.” “I don’t...
By Michael Swan – A third of Canada’s Christian architecture, some 9,000 churches, will close in the next 10 years, according to the National Trust for Canada. “It’s definitely going to be a bad...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Demons / Devil
by CNS · Published March 28, 2019 · Last modified March 27, 2019
By Carol Glatz – The Catholic Church, through its priests, deacons and lay experts, must do more to listen to, comfort and assist those who feel troubled, tempted, cursed or possessed, said an Italian exorcist....
By Michael Otto Catholic News Service – New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have expressed horror and distress at a terrorist attack in two mosques in Christchurch that saw at least 49 people killed. The shootings took...
Church / Crisis / Education / Erin Carelse / Schools
by Erin Carelse · Published February 27, 2019 · Last modified February 26, 2019
Holy Cross Primary School in District Six, Cape Town, has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the community and the provincial education department after a devastating fire earlier this month destroyed three...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Dealing With Life / Depression &Suicide / Divorce / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published January 22, 2019 · Last modified January 21, 2019
A parish in Johannesburg will host another round of Divorce Care and Grief Share programmes, each running for 13 weeks, as of February. These programmes, offered by St John’s parish in North Riding, are...
After reports of multiple deaths in violent protests over steep fuel price hikes in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Robert Ndlovu of Harare called for restraint by the security forces and protesters. “Mature political leadership and a...
Christian Living / Crisis / News
by Kilian SC · Published January 12, 2019 · Last modified January 11, 2019
No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his Jan. 8 nine-minute speech, his first such event televised in prime time from the Oval Office, about what he termed a crisis at the border, than...
Christian Living / Crisis / Magliano / War and Refugees
by Tony Magliano · Published January 11, 2019
Blaming huge numbers of violent killings, assaults, sex crimes and drug overdoses on undocumented immigrants, President Donald Trump in his first prime-time speech from the Oval Office said, “This is a humanitarian crisis, a...
Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published January 11, 2019 · Last modified January 6, 2019
Fr Sean Collins CSsR, Howick, KZN – In this new year, I would like to draw attention to the plight of Colombian Sister Cecelia Gloria Navaerez Argoti, a Catholic nun kidnapped by jihadists in Mali...
