Tags - Church
Churchgoers in many countries of the world ignore physical distancing advice and keep holding religious services despite the coronavirus pandemic, a report says.
News ID: 449830 Publish Date : 2020/03/31
French President Emmanuel Macron has confronted Israeli forces during a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds.
News ID: 448587 Publish Date : 2020/01/23
US Catholic bishops have approved new rules that require clergy to report suspicions of sexual assault against children, as the Catholic Church struggles with an ongoing sexual abuse crisis.
News ID: 445421 Publish Date : 2019/06/15
Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities, in a new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.
News ID: 444818 Publish Date : 2019/05/11
Poll:
The percentage of adults in the United States who are members of a church or other religious institutions has reached an all-time low, while the percentage of US adults with no religious affiliation is increasing, according to a new poll.
News ID: 444409 Publish Date : 2019/04/21
Roman Catholic leaders in Texas on Thursday identified around 300 US priests and others accused of sexually abusing children.
News ID: 443269 Publish Date : 2019/02/02
Ayatollah Araki clarified:
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, which shook the world, the role of religion was introduced in the field of community management for the first time.
News ID: 443161 Publish Date : 2019/01/27
Rasa - Bishops in France have announced that an “independent” commission will be established to investigate the decades-long sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church in the European country.
News ID: 441436 Publish Date : 2018/11/08
Rasa - The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by hundreds of Catholic priests in the state of Pennsylvania, following the recent publication of a report on decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.
News ID: 441125 Publish Date : 2018/10/19
Rasa - A press report reveals that more than half of the Netherlands' senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual abuse of minors for nearly seven decades, the latest in a series of assault allegations against the Catholic Church.
News ID: 439566 Publish Date : 2018/09/16
Rasa - Recent revelations of sexual misconduct and cover-up within the highest ranks of the US Catholic Church have revived the sense of betrayal that devastated the American church's credibility after the first wave of scandal hit in 2002.
News ID: 439395 Publish Date : 2018/09/04
Rasa - Chile's most senior Catholic cleric has expressed his apology for the “tension” affecting the South American country after five bishops stepped down in a sexual abuse scandal that has triggered a major civil investigation.
News ID: 439337 Publish Date : 2018/09/01
Rasa - The Catholic Church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the government.
News ID: 439320 Publish Date : 2018/08/31
Archbishop Vigano:
Rasa - The former Vatican ambassador to the United States, who called on Pope Francis to resign over allegations that he was covering-up child abuse by priests, says corruption has reached the top levels of the Church hierarchy.
News ID: 439317 Publish Date : 2018/08/31
Rasa - The board members of one of the largest evangelical churches in the United States have quit over a sexual misconduct scandal that has already forced out its founder.
News ID: 439030 Publish Date : 2018/08/09
Rasa - Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one of the US Catholic Church’s most prominent figures, who has been at the center of a widening sexual abuse scandal.
News ID: 438878 Publish Date : 2018/07/30
Rasa - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) remained closed for a third day Tuesday as Christian leaders protested against Israeli occupation tax measures and an oppressive proposed law.
News ID: 436632 Publish Date : 2018/02/28
Rasa - PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi strongly denounced recent Israeli attacks on Churches, primarily the Jerusalem Municipality's decision to collect Church taxes and the planned proposal by the Knesset's Ministerial Committee for Legislation to approve legislation to expropriate Church land in Occupied Jerusalem.
News ID: 436593 Publish Date : 2018/02/26
Rasa - A high-ranking American cardinal has criticized Pope Francis over his recent remarks in Chile, saying the comments had caused “great pain” for victims of sexual abuse.
News ID: 435917 Publish Date : 2018/01/21
Rasa - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a church in Quetta, Pakistan, which killed at least 8 people and injured 20 others.
News ID: 435409 Publish Date : 2017/12/18