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In the Nigerian capital Lagos, a building with a primary school has collapsed. The authorities take into account that many people have died. The rescue services are massive...

Australian cardinal George Pell (77), a very influential man in the Vatican, has been sentenced to six years in prison in Australia. The former senior official of the Vatican was...

A 40-year-old woman from Dongen, Brabant, was sentenced to 1.5 years in Belgium for stealing copper drain pipes from eighteen churches in Belgian Limburg. The court in Tongeren...

Vandals brought the head of a 800-year-old mummy from a church in Dublin. They also 'desecrate' the remains of several other people, reports the Anglican Church in...

Pope Francis has said at the end of a four-day conference on combating child abuse among clergymen that this should no longer occur and no more cases concealed...

Investigations into priests of the Catholic Church who abused children have been destroyed or even never made.

A Swedish court sentenced a 22-year-old man to four and a half years' imprisonment for the theft of ancient crown jewels from Strängnäs Cathedral last year. The public…

Bishop of Rotterdam Hans van den Hende hopes for a joint approach within the world church of the big problem of sexual abuse of minors by clergymen. He is like...

Pope Francis arrived Sunday night in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The leader of the Roman Catholic Church was welcomed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the crown prince of...

Leaders of the Catholic Church in Texas have announced the names of nearly three hundred priests suspected of sexual abuse.

On the Philippine island of Jolo at least nineteen people were killed when two bombs went off shortly after each other at a Catholic church. 48 others were injured, the Filipino...

Thousands of people were present on Saturday at the funeral and commemoration of the stabbed mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz (53). The Polish mayor was last Sunday...

Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi has been declared the winner of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was announced by the national electoral commission of the African country.

A bomb expert from the Egyptian police died on Saturday during the dismantling of an explosive. That was according to state television placed at a church in the east of Cairo. Two…

The head of orthodox Christians worldwide has formally granted the Ukrainian church autonomy on Saturday. It means a historic break with Russia. The Ukrainian leaders consider the...

The left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wants to go down in history as the man who had former dictator Franco excavated from the monumental mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen, at 50 kilometers...

In a gruesome accident in Florida, five children died who were in a van at the local church on their way to Disney World. Bystanders describe an immense heat. 'That was...

Two robber robbers have detained several brothers of a Catholic church in Vienna for hours and left five of them wounded. At this moment a manhunt is going on to the perpetrators.

At the cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens a bomb exploded on Thursday morning. An agent and an employee of the church were injured.

Pope Francis called for peace in Syria and Yemen in his Christmas speech prior to the 'Urbi et orbi'. He also hopes that the peace talks between the Palestinians and...

The Catholic Church in the American state of Illinois has withheld the names of at least five hundred priests accused of sexual abuse. There are also many reports of abuse...

At least four people were killed because an armed man in a church in Brazil opened fire. Then the man shot himself dead.

The coffin with the body of the late ex-president of the USA George H.W. Bush was transferred from the Capitol on Wednesday to the National Cathedral where the memorial service will take place.

Pope Francis is worried about homosexuals in the Roman Catholic Church. 'It even seems that homosexuality is in fashion, and this mentality influences the church to a certain extent.'

An influential clergyman who sexually abused his female followers has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in South Korea. The victims of Lee Jae rock saw him as someone close to god and did not dare to resist, reports South Korean media.

The Catholic Church in Spain has publicly admitted that priests and other clergy were sexually abusing minors. 'The Church publicly recognizes abuses of different kinds and is determined to eradicate them,' said Ricardo Blázquez, President of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, at the opening of the 112th plenary session of bishops in Madrid.

The Irish may Friday in a referendum on the blasphemy ban in their constitution. Everything indicates that they want to get rid of the ban, because even the Irish churches no longer think of this time.

Pope Francis has warned the youth of the world about populism and xenophobia. In this connection he recalled the rise of National Socialism about Adolf Hitler. Young people should take note of the history of the 20th century, including both World Wars 'so they do not make the same mistakes and understand how populism expands,' said the leader of the Roman Catholic Church Tuesday.

The US authorities are investigating child abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. Seven of the eight dioceses in the state say they are summoned to hand over documents, reports American media.

On Curaçao church leader Orlando B.- who turned out to be a sex-hungry predator who also abused underage girls- sentenced to fourteen years in prison on Thursday. Nor may he exercise the function of church leader for nineteen years.