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Archbishop of Canterbury calls church’s slave trade links a ‘source of shame’

The church’s investigation found its predecessor fund had invested ‘significant amounts’ in the trade of enslaved people.

The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2022

‘A healing journey’: Residential school survivors and the Church

Following the pope’s apology, can Indigenous residential school survivors forgive the Catholic Church?

Al Jazeera · Jun 12, 2022

Russian Orthodox Church sends its second most powerful figure on lower-ranking overseas posting

Russia's Orthodox Church has ousted its second most powerful bishop from his role in charge of foreign relations and sent him to Budapest, an abrupt decision indicating discord at the top of the Moscow Patriarchate over the war in Ukraine.

Reuters · Jun 8, 2022

Uma Thomas | Out of the shadows

Wife of a late Congress leader secured a huge victory in Kerala byelection 

The Hindu · Jun 4, 2022

Pastor Rick Warren announces successor to lead Saddleback Church into the future

Pastor Rick Warren, who ministers weekly to a global audience of more than 40,000 people and has offered spiritual guidance to multiple American presidents, announced on Thursday the successor who will lead the Saddleback Church he founded nearly 43 years ago in Orange County, California.

The Orange County Register · Jun 2, 2022

A tabernacle was stolen and an angel statue was beheaded at a Brooklyn church

The incident happened between 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, known as the "Notre Dame" of Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood.

WEKU · May 31, 2022

Excavation Of Holy Sepulchre May Reveal More Hidden Mysteries, Say Archaeologists

Following years of delay, restoration and archaeological excavation at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre will begin what experts believe may reveal secrets and churchmen hope will bring peace..

Zenger · May 30, 2022

Filipe Neri Ferrao: After 465 years, archdiocese of Goa gets its first cardinal

PANAJI: In a historic moment for Goa, Pope Francis has picked Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao as one of 21 new cardinals, who will be elevated on August 27 at the Vatican. Ferrao thus became the first-ever archbishop of Goa to elevated to the cardinalate in 465 years, and is only…

The Times of India · May 29, 2022

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican power broker for decades under two popes, dies at 94

Cardinal Angelo Sodano — a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church's most notorious sex abusers — dies at the age of 94.

ABC News · May 28, 2022

Thrikkakara byelection | No-holds-barred campaign ends today

The LDF and UDF left no stone unturned in their electioneering in Thrikkakara as it emerged as a battle of prestige between Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan

The Hindu · May 28, 2022