A 35-year-old French singer, Barbara Weldens, died in South France during a performance. In the meantime, there was a wednesday evening in a church building in the town of Gourdon in the context of the music festival Léo Ferré. She suddenly collapsed. According to the French news site Europe1, she would have been electrocuted.
Over five hundred choirs of the famous cathedral church in the German city of Regensburg have been abused and abused by priests and teachers in recent decades. That concludes the lawyer who was investigating the matter on behalf of the diocese, which is much more than imagined.
The UN Peace Mission has found 38 new suspected mass graves in the Kasai region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since the outbreak of an uprising in August, about eighty such graves have now been discovered.
The municipality of Reimerswaal has agreed on Tuesday evening with the arrival of a mega church on the edge of the Zeeland village Yerseke. The construction of the church that has to accommodate 2000 believers is controversial.
Gluten-free bread is not allowed at the Supper in the Catholic Church. The Vatican recalled a letter sent to all bishops on Saturday. Hostels that do not contain gluten are for the church 'invalid matter', so it became known on Sunday. Hosties must be made of unsweetened bread and consist of pure wheat flour.
Half Hamburg is kicked off for the G20 summit, which will start officially only tomorrow. But tonight the proud harbor city is already expecting heavy riots at the extreme-left demonstration 'Welcome to hell'. Shops are clogged, people flee the city massively.
The Curaçao pastor Orlando B. was sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse by the court in Willemstad on Wednesday afternoon. He may also not perform the function of pastor for fourteen years. Against the spiritual, eighteen years of celery was required.
With a musical ceremony on the Domplein, the German town of Speyer, Saturday night ended the public ceremonies around the funeral of German statesman Helmut Kohl.
Margaret (95) and Bernard (93) have known each other since they are teenagers. But recently, the two proud Britons discovered that their feelings went further than friendship and decided to go on their wedding day on their old day. 'It's never too late for love.'
Pastor Geertjan van Rossem of Saint John in Den Bosch received applause on Saturday for his participation in the much-discussed ecumenical celebration at the beginning of Pink Saturday. The prayer service Saturday morning was in the Protestant Great Church in Den Bosch, because Bishop Gerard de Korte had withdrawn the permission to keep those in St. John because of protests from priests and believers.
In Colombia there are new indications that the release process of the abducted Dutch journalists Derk Bolt and Eugenio Follender is taking place. According to various sources in the city of Cucuta, there is a mission of the Catholic Church on the way to meeting emissaries of the left-wing rebel group ELN.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima resigned from the Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday evening at Palazzo Colonna in Rome. That happened after a concert and reception that the royal couple offered their Italian host as a gratitude for hospitality during the state visit started on Tuesday. With the farewell, this visit is formally completed, even though there is another follow-up in Milan on Thursday and Friday.
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1930-2017) is buried in Speyer and not in the family grave in Ludwigshafen. This has left a confidant of the 16th deceased statesman, Kai Diekmann, on Tuesday.
In the region of Kasaï in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 3300 civilians have been killed by Congolese security forces and a military militia since October. The figure comes from the Catholic Church, which is based on its own sources in the remote area on the border with Angola.
According to the mayor of the British capital, the lethal tower fire in London could have been avoided. Sadiq Khan said Sunday according to the BBC that the tragedy was actually caused by local government and successive governments, which would have been guilty of 'years of neglect.'
Pope Franciscus has encouraged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to continue to work for international cooperation. In addition, the German leader, on a visit to Vatican City, said in his own accord that he was holding the request for the Paris Convention on Climate Change.
Three men in Medellín are married to each other. It is for the first time that three people in Colombia are really connected.
A series of leaders of different religions, including Pope Franciscus, made a joint call on unity on Wednesday, asking believers to make friends with people of different faiths. Personal contact is an important means of combating the widespread misconceptions of followers of another faith, against prejudice and against distrust.
Pope Franciscus does not visit South Sudan this year. According to Italian media, the trip was delayed for safety reasons.
President Duterte says he wants to expand the state of emergency in southern Philippines to the whole country. The army is carrying out fierce fighting with militants on the island of Mindanao, where Muslims have been fighting for autonomy for years. Certainly three soldiers have died.
Pope Franciscus will soon create five cardinals. He announced that on Sunday. The mentals that are promoted are from Mali, Spain, Sweden, Laos and El Salvador. The official ceremony, the so-called consistory, is on June 28th.
Pope Franciscus said on Saturday that he would speak 'honestly and sincerely' with US President Donald Trump during the planned meeting between the two in eleven days.
Pope Franciscus was received by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Friday afternoon at the start of his two day visit to Portugal.
A Russian blogger has been sentenced to a conditional imprisonment after playing Pokémon GO in a church in Yekaterinburg. The Public Prosecutor's Office wanted to send him to a labor camp for more than three years, but the judge did not agree with it.
Five members of the women's action group Femen perform Sunday in the home of Marine Le Pen, Hénin-Beaumont. Pictures on social media show that the women have been exposed to naked breasts on a scaffold against a church. The church is near the polling station where the Presidential candidate of the Front National Sunday will cast its vote.
US President Donald Trump signed a decree on religious liberties on Thursday. That gives churches and other non-taxable institutions some space for political activities. That was forbidden by the separation of church and state. The presidential decree also weakens the rules for employers who are on a belief basis against childbirth.
A memorial to give young people a new meaning to remember war victims of all ages, in a form that matches younger generations. That is the idea behind the first National Youth Memorial, Thursday evening at the new Luxor Theater in Rotterdam.
A 29-year-old Afghan who was arrested last weekend in the German state of Bavaria for the death of a 38-year-old Afghan woman probably acted from a religious motive. The police made it clear Wednesday that the conversion of women to Christianity 'is increasingly central to the research.'
The missing girl Madeleine McCann no longer lives and is cremated after her death. That claims the controversial police chief Goncalo Amaral, who was involved ten years ago in the search for the missing British toddler.
The owner of a flower shop in the New Jersey state has stolen flowers and other objects from a cemetery for months. The camera was a 59-year-old woman against the lamp.
