The admission comes days after a report into sexual abuse in Germany faulted Benedict for his lack of action against four abusive priests when he was archbishop of Munich. Retired Pope Benedict XVI admitted on Monday that he did attend a meeting in Munich in 1980 Read more…
Tensions soared Monday between Russia and the West over concerns that Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine, with NATO outlining potential troop and ship deployments, Britain saying it would withdraw some diplomats from Kyiv, and Ireland denouncing upcoming Russian war Read more…
The body representing Catholic bishops in Spain has acknowledged that nearly 1,000 real estate properties across the country were registered as possessions of the Church despite having no proof of ownership or clearly belonging to others. The Catholic Church will Read more…
Anambra State Governor-Elect, Professor Charles Soludo, yesterday, dismissed the criticisms that his 80-man transition committee is bloated contending that their respective submissions are ignorant of the enormous tasks before the committee. This is coming as the Integrated Religious Council (IRC) Read more…
The father of Izuchukwu David Onwualu, the deceased 11-year-old JSS 1 student of St. Valerian Catholic School, Onitsha, Anambra State, Mr Christopher Onwualu, has said he did not collect N200,000 from the school to hurriedly bury his son. Master Izuchukwu David Onwualu Read more…
THERE are reports of an uprising in Akaeze Community of Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State led by enraged youths in the area. This is because of the alleged murder of one Nnaogo Akpoke Anyim on 18th January, 2022. Read more…
Gunmen last Sunday shot dead and then beheaded a man said to be a member of the Ebubeagu security operative in Ebonyi State, Nigeria’s South-east. Ebubeagu was set up by the Ebonyi State Government to complement the job of the Read more…
On January 14, a band of heavily armed men stormed Dankade town in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, killing at least 17 residents and abducting many more in a punitive expedition. The residents had refused to pay a Read more…
At least 486 people were killed in the first three weeks of 2022 by non-state actors across Nigeria, an average of 22 people a day, a PREMIUM TIMES compilation of media reports shows. Over 80 per cent of the killings Read more…
The way Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin propaganda talk about the countries Russia threatens—with Ukraine front and center—to invade, occupy, coerce and control tells the story of perhaps the unhappiest family in the world. Reading Putin’s mind is in many ways a mug’s Read more…
Pope Francis on Sunday for the first time conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministries of lector and catechist on women, roles that previously many had carried out without institutional recognition. He conferred the ministries at a Mass in St. Peter’s Read more…
Moscow denies US State Department’s assertion that Russia creates false narratives and publishes propaganda Documents published by Washington on Thursday alleging the Kremlin has created an “ecosystem” of propaganda are an attempt to “incriminate the Russian authorities,” the country’s ambassador in Washington has claimed. Read more…