Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá, Colombia, washed the feet of transgender prostitutes on Holy Thursday, according to multiple Latin American media reports.
The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops strongly condemned the mob killing of Eneless Kamutumbe, a 46-year-old woman. The Zambia Monitor reported on the accusation that led to the mob violence, as did the Zambian Observer.
DNA research on the Shroud of Turin “suggests the likelihood that the cloth passed through the Middle East,” according to a summary of new research provided by Vatican News, the news agency of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication. The principal author of the research was Gianni Barcaccia, professor of Genetics and Genomics at the University […]
Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, the Patriarch of the Maronite Church, condemned the cancellation of a humanitarian convoy intended for a beleaguered Christian village in southern Lebanon. The apostolic nuncio, joined by UN peacekeepers and Catholic organizations, organized the convoy to assist the residents of Debel amid the Lebanon war. “The cancellation of a humanitarian convoy—even […]