Posts Tagged ‘protection’
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Vatican signals options for protecting gay couples
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A high-ranking Vatican official on Monday (Feb. 4) voiced support for giving unmarried couples some kind of legal protection even as he reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Vatican ends probe of clergy abuse in Ireland
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Following a yearlong investigation into decades of rampant abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, the Vatican on Tuesday (March 20) called for more rigorous screening of would-be priests and compulsor...
Turkish Christians Subject to Discrimination, Attacks, Report Says
Despite some promising developments, Christians in Turkey continue to suffer attacks from private citizens, discrimination by lower-level government officials and vilification in both school textbooks and news media, according ...
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Vatican to host global summit on sexual abuse
Ten years after the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in the United States, Catholic bishops from all over the world will meet next week at a Vatican summit aimed at preventing abuse and protecting children. The conference, &...
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Child protection agency urges Polish church to confront clerical abuse claims
The head of Poland’s largest child protection agency has urged the Roman Catholic church to respond to growing complaints of sexual abuse by its priests. “It’s not the scale of this phenomenon which is worryin...
Christians in Nigeria demand more government protection from terrorists
Christians in Nigeria are demanding more government protection from militant Muslims even as thousands have been slaughtered in recent attacks, largely in central and northern Nigeria. A number of human rights groups also want ...
Arts & Culture
U.K. religious archives being lost, at peril
Many religious archives from the U.K., some dating as far back as the medieval period up to the present, are becoming lost or are at peril, a recent study shows. The survey, which was put together by the U.K. Religious Archives...
Commentary and News
Vatican indignant over the conduct of police during Belgian raids
The Vatican decried recently the way the Belgian police handled the raids on church grounds and a cardinal’s home. They expressed outrage that the tombs of two cardinals were drilled open. The tombs of Cardinals Van Roey and Su...
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“Anti-Muslim” bus ads lead to controversy, lawsuit
Bus ads offering advice and protection for Muslims who would like to convert to Christianity have recently sparked controversy in New York and led to a lawsuit in Detroit. The ads say: ” Fatwa on your head? Is your family...