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Survey: Fewer Poles trust Pope
Warsaw - Fewer Poles have confidence in the Pope as trust has fallen over the past decade in the Roman Catholic church, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported Thursday. Some 80 per cent of Poles trust the current Pope Benedict compared to 91 per cent who ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Pope reforms body dealing with renegade ultra-traditionalists
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI has restructured a church commission in charge of stalled negotiations with a rebel ultra-traditionalist Catholic group, placing it under the authority of the Holy See's main disciplinary watchdog body, the Vatican an...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Iraq to host conference on religious tolerance
Baghdad - Iraq will host a conference on religious tolerance and dialogue in October, a leading Baghdad daily reported Wednesday. Religious leaders of all faiths from around Iraq and the world would gather in Baghdad for a conference on religious dia...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Japan's Catholic premier Aso visits Pope
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday met Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, a member of his country's tiny Roman Catholic community. In cordial discussions, Asp and the pontiff examined certain current international questions, with particula...

[Posted on : 2009-07-07 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Pope Benedict critiques the global economy in new encyclical
Vatican City - In an encyclical published Tuesday on the eve of a Group of Eight summit, Pope Benedict XVI has urged governments to place the needs of people first as they grapple with the current economic crisis. The primary capital to be safeguard...

[Posted on : 2009-07-07 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Meeting Muslims, senior German affirms need for religion
Regensburg, Germany - German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble praised religious values as an antidote to the world economic crisis, at a meeing with Muslim leaders Monday. The crisis has demonstrated what happens when values are no longer follow...

[Posted on : 2009-07-06 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Pope calls on G8 nations to maintain and boost aid to world's poor
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI has called on the world's leading industrialized nations to maintain and strengthen assistance for poor nations during the world economic crisis, according to information released by the Vatican Saturday. I appeal to G8 memb...

[Posted on : 2009-07-04 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Pope's 'social' encyclical to be published on July 7
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical, a document on how the global economy should take into account the needs of the poor, is to be published on July 7, the Vatican said Wednesday. Entitled Caritas in veritate, in English, Charity i...

[Posted on : 2009-07-01 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Sermons bring touch of Islam to broadcaster - Feature
Berlin - A controversy in Germany a couple of years ago about Islamic content on tax-funded websites has faded and broadcasters are now gingerly wondering if Islamic spirituality should be permitted on German radio. It is hard to imagine a more cauti...

[Posted on : 2009-06-30 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Breakaway Catholic sect ordains eight new priests in Switzerland
Geneva - Eight priests were ordained Monday into the conservative Society of Saint Pius X in Switzerland, in a direct snub to the Vatican. The society was founded in 1970 by Catholics upset over the liberal reforms in the church following the Second ...

[Posted on : 2009-06-29 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

 

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