With a memorial service in the Mare de Deu dels Dolors church on Mallorca, the inhabitants of the island said goodbye to thirteen people who were killed by flooding. The Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia mourned with them on Wednesday evening. Françina Armengol, the Prime Minister of the Balearic Islands, also attended the meeting.
Pope Francis declares Sunday morning the Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was murdered in 1980, holy. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the ceremony at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
Pope Francis compared abortion with rent murder. In the past, the pope sometimes said that his Roman Catholic Church is too concerned with debates about abortion. He also showed some understanding in 2015 for women who let their pregnancy end 'because they see no other way out.' He also described abortion as a sin, but at the same time as a tragedy.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, Cardinal Marx, has apologized for all forms of sexual abuse within the church over the past decades. He did so during the presentation of a comprehensive study into the abuse of children and young people.
Italians are divided on the proposal of Minister of Labor \u0026 amp; Economic Development Luigi Di Maio, to keep stores closed on Sundays and during the holidays. Di Maio, of the populist Five Star movement, wants to ensure that families can spend the Sunday together.
Pope Francis had a private meeting Wednesday with U2 singer Bono in the Vatican. They discussed, among other things, the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Bono's native country of Ireland.
Getting married with the love of your life is a little girl's dream for many women. This also applies to the seriously ill 19-year-old Nina Marino. She died a few days after she gave the yes to the love of her life from the hospital bed.
Pope Francis has called on the Mafiosi in Sicily to give up their lives full of crime and violence and to opt for love. The prince of the Church said that members of organized crime, who are mostly practicing Catholics, 'can not believe in God and can be Mafiosi at the same time.'
The Chilean police have invaded four dioceses because of a major abuse case in the country. Information gathered by the police in the investigation showed that more documents could be found in Concepcion, Chillan, Valparaiso and Osorno that could be of value in the research.
The bullet is by the church: the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Tel Aviv next year. But some 140 artists, led by Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters, have started a campaign to boycott the popular event. 'As long as Palestinians do not have freedom, justice and equal rights, no business needs to be done with a state that withholds their basic rights', according to an open letter from the group.
A new abuse scandal casts a deep shadow over the Catholic Church in Germany. More than sixteen hundred priests have been guilty of sexual abuse in the past sixty years.
Pope Francis has called all presidents of bishops' conferences of the world to Rome to discuss the fight against the sexual abuse of minors by clergy. This is what the Vatican said on Wednesday.
The German Roman Catholic Church has had the abuse under clergy themselves mapped. Thousands of alleged abuse cases emerged from the confidential investigation, according to news article Der Spiegel.
Italy is the land of cappuccinos and espressos, but the Italians are now also faced with frappuccinos. The American chain Starbucks has opened its first tent in the country on Friday. There was a long line with hundreds of tourists and Italians in front of the Milan office. 'I hope the coffee tastes better here than in America,' said a Milanese customer.
A 31-year-old Instagram model shocked England with its topless photos for a First World War monument. People call her action disrespectful.
While the world is crying out for a clear signal from the pope in response to the many abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, conservative Roman Catholic clerics are rubbing their hands. They prefer that Pope Francis collapses under the many criticisms, draws his consequences and resigns.
The number of cases of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Chile is much greater than expected. The Public Prosecution Service announced Friday 119 cases, three times as much than a month ago.
The Roman Catholic Church in Australia refuses to cooperate with the government's plan for priests to report abuse to the police if they hear about it during confession. That is what the bishops' conference in the country announced on Friday. The government proposal was one of the recommendations after an investigation into sexual abuse within the church.
Hundreds of agents from all over Belgium have formed an honorary hedge at the farewell of the Saturday night at Spa Amaury Delrez. They all wore a mourning band and saluted when the funeral procession passed by.
Also on the second day of the public farewell of Aretha Franklin there are long lines for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History. The Queen of Soul is laid out there.
The funeral of the policeman who was shot dead in Spa (Liège), is attended by many prominent politicians. These include Prime Minister Charles Michel, the Ministers of the Interior and Justice, the Governor of the Province of Liège and the President of the Chamber of Representatives.
Germany has given Namibia the physical remains of 27 people who were killed in the colonial period. Robbed parts of the body were then taken from the African country to be used in so-called 'race studies'.
No matter how many times the Pope asks for forgiveness for the abuse in the Catholic Church, Dutch parishioners are fed up with new scandals, according to a round trip. Henk Rijkers of the conservative Catholic foundation Civitas Christiana hopes for a move that makes others impossible: that Pope Francis resigns.
Pope Francis refuses to accept accusations that he has covered up abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church. During his return trip to Rome, the spiritual leader on the plane said that the document with the allegations 'speaks for itself'. and that he does not want to elaborate on it.
The family of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) opposes the plan to move the remains of the general. In a statement, seven grandchildren indicate 'under no circumstance \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; to cooperate with that. They will use all legal possibilities to prevent excavation, report Spanish media.
Pope Francis arrived in Ireland on Saturday. The first papal visit to the country in 39 years is overshadowed by recent revelations about abuse within the church. Francis is expected to meet, among other things, victims of sexual abuse by clergy.
Matt Talbot, a Dubliner who died in 1925, was once a notorious slap. Now he is on his way to becoming a saint. Pope Francis will honor him on Saturday during his visit to predominantly Catholic Ireland, but not by giving a toast.
The carlists, the Spanish movement that Prince Carlos, born and living in the Netherlands, regards as the rightful occupier of the Spanish throne, will remember Friday during a mass in the San Fermin de los Navarros church in Madrid on the death in August 2010 of 'king Carlos Hugo '.
The Spanish government of Social Democratic Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will move the remains of dictator and general Francisco Franco (1892-1975). Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo has announced on Friday that a decree has been issued and that the procedure has been initiated.
The American cardinal Raymond Burke thinks that abuse by clergy is mainly due to homosexuality.
