Category: Religion

Declaring “God is on your side”, a Roman Catholic cardinal, and archbishop and six other U.S bishops issued a statement Monday expressing support for LGBTQ youth and denouncing the bullying often directed at them. “All people of goodwill should help, support and defend LGBT youth,” said the statement released by the Tyler Clementi Foundation, named […]

Durban – President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that South Africa has no place for religious intolerance. “There is no place for religious intolerance of any sort in the democratic South Africa. Our Constitution is clear that no person may be discriminated against on the basis of, among other things, religion, conscience, belief, culture or language,” […]

Johannesburg – The leader of the Rivers of Living Waters Ministry, Bishop Stephen Zondo, stands accused of financially exploiting his congregants. The CRL Rights Commission is holding a hearing into allegations against the bishop. Speaking on Wednesday, one witness, Soenki Selepe, told the commission he joined the church in 2013 after experiencing marital problems. “The […]

A former pastor at the popular Hillsong megachurch said Thursday that he was fired for cheating on his wife. Carl Lents is a co-founder of Hillsong’s New York branch and a one-time close confidant of Justin Bieber, among other celebrities. Church founder Brian Houston had said in an earlier email only that Lents was let […]

Morocco’s foreign ministry said on Sunday the continuing publication of “offensive” cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is an act of provocation. French media published the caricatures of the Prophet, which were also projected on some buildings, after the beheading of a French professor by an Islamist radical earlier this month. While condemning savage acts perpetrated […]

Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory was among 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday and will become the first Black American U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. Gregory was picked to lead the prestigious diocese in the U.S. capital last year. He served three times as the head of the U.S. […]

The Anglican church has publicly challenged the government’s willingness to break international law over Brexit, with five archbishops from Great Britain and Ireland joining together to condemn what could be a “disastrous precedent”. In a rare step, the archbishops of Canterbury and York, plus their counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, have written a joint […]

New York – A Roman Catholic diocese in New York City’s suburbs has become the largest in the U.S. to declare bankruptcy to protect itself from a wave of lawsuits filed over past sexual abuse by clergy members. The Diocese of Rockville Centre filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. It is the eighth […]

Rome – The powerful head of the Vatican’s saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly on Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him directly. The Vatican has not provided details on why Pope Francis accepted his resignation in a statement late Thursday. […]

Panama City – Authorities in Panama have discovered a new mass grave in a remote area where in January they found the remains of seven people that police believe were tortured and killed by a religious sect. Prosecutors said on Monday they believed a different sect is responsible for the new mass grave. The state […]