RELIGION August 27, 2018 Catholic priest says life in danger for criticizing Duterte A Roman Catholic priest who was one of the earliest critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown on drugs has gone into hiding due to what he says were signs he's being targeted by motorcycle-riding hitmen.
RELIGION August 27, 2018 China leader calls for 'anti-separatism efforts' in Tibet A top Chinese leader has called for "advancing anti-separatism efforts" in Tibet, in a sign of continued high-pressure tactics in the Himalayan region.
Vatican August 26, 2018 Pope refuses to comment on claims he ignored McCarrick abuse accusations Pope Francis told reporters Sunday that he "won't say a word" about claims by a former Vatican ambassador to the U.S. that the pontiff had rehabilitated the former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, despite being made aware of sexual misconduct claims against him.
Vatican August 26, 2018 Former Vatican diplomat calls for Pope Francis to resign, claims he ignored sex abuse allegations A fiery testament published Sunday calls for Pope Francis to step down, alleging that the top Holy see authority was made aware soon after becoming pope in 2013 that the former archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, had engaged in unlawful sexual indiscretions but chose not to act.
RELIGION August 26, 2018 Italy: Catholic leaders reject politics at migrants' expense Italy's Catholic bishops offered to care for a majority of 140 migrants the country's government had prevented from leaving an Italian coast guard ship docked for days in a Sicilian harbor because politics shouldn't be practiced at the expense of the poor, prominent churchmen said Sunday.
RELIGION August 26, 2018 The Latest: Pope denounces Ireland's forced adoptions The Latest on Pope Francis' trip to Ireland (all times local): 11:15 p.m. Pope Francis has denounced how Irish children were "robbed of their innocence and taken from their mothers" by Catholic Church-run institutions that put them up for adoption for the shame of having been born to unwed mothers.
RELIGION August 26, 2018 Pope hears the wounds of Ireland's abused, and vows to speak Pope Francis visited a famous shrine Sunday in Ireland and was to celebrate a Mass dedicated to families after an emotional meeting with Irish victims of clerical sex abuse and those wrenched away from their mothers in forced adoptions demanded by Catholic authorities.
OPINION August 26, 2018 Iran's forgotten persecuted Christian minority Iranian Christians are in dire straits in the Islamic Republic because of a new wave of regime repression that has largely not registered in the media due to the country’s economic free fall and popular uprising by a people fed up with the tyrannical nature of the regime.
RELIGION August 26, 2018 Former Vatican envoy pens j'accuse letter in McCarrick case The Vatican's retired ambassador to the United States has purportedly penned an 11-page letter accusing senior Vatican officials of knowing as early as 2000 that the disgraced former archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, regularly invited seminarians into his bed but they still promoted him to cardinal.
RELIGION August 25, 2018 Abuse survivors disappointed by pope's comments to Irish government Pope Francis has arrived in Ireland, ground zero of the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis, with the institution under fire across the globe for its systemic failures to protect children from priestly rapists or punish bishops who hid the crimes.