Tag: Religion
“For a Church without fear”: the call of 125 German LGBTQI Catholics to reform the Church
Catholics and gay, trans or bisexual, so what? In Germany, at the end of January more than a hundred priests and employees of the Catholic Church decided to break the…
Former Pope Benedict XVI asks ‘forgiveness’ for sexual assault scandals
Three weeks after a report implicating him in his handling of sexual assaults on minors in the Archdiocese of Munich, which he led in the early 1980s, the Vatican published…
France: the training of imams and mourchidates at the Al-Ghazali Institute in Paris
The Forum of Islam in France, Forif, held its first meeting this Saturday, February 5 in Paris. Among the topics of reflection, the status of imams. Without status, there is…
The Forum de l’islam de France held its first plenary session
A hundred leaders of mosques, imams, members of civil society and association leaders, from all over the country, met this Saturday, February 5 at the initiative of the State to…
A “forum” for the future of Islam in France, the country’s second religion
In France, after the failure of the French Council for Muslim Worship (CFCM), the government is launching a new initiative to structure the cult and give the State an interlocutor.…
the public prosecutor intends to investigate all complaints
The Public Ministry has asked 17 regional prosecutors from all over Spain to submit within ten days all complaints of sexual abuse committed against minors in the clerical space, both…
Pedophilia in the Church: what to do with the works of Father Ribes?
In France, the Catholic Church is again shaken by a pedophilia scandal. Father Ribes, who died in 1994, is accused of having sexually assaulted dozens of children in the 1970s…
8 dead including 2 police officers in clashes between the police and followers of a sect
Clashes on Saturday January 29 between the police and followers of the Azael Church, described as a sect, left eight dead in the district of Monkpa, a district of the…
125 homosexual Church employees speak out against discrimination against them
It’s the biggest coming out that the Catholic Church has ever known. This Monday, January 24, 125 people, priests, religious teachers, Church employees officially made their homosexuality public in Germany.…
beatification ceremony for four victims of the civil war
The beatification ceremony of four religious and lay people murdered in 1977 and 1980 during the cruel civil war took place this Saturday in El Salvador. Considered martyrs of the…