Category: World Report

Bishop Barron applauds Trump’s order banning minors’ sex-change surgeries

Madalaine Elhabbal / CNA Bishop Robert Barron has released a statement commending President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning federal funding for “transgender” medical interventions for minors. “I welcome the president’s executive order,” Bishop Barron said in a statement in his capacity as chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life,…

New data looks at clerical abuse of minors in the Philippines

CRUX At least 82 priests and religious brothers associated with the Philippines have publicly accused of sexual abuse with minors, according to a new data provided by BishopAccountability.org, a leading anti-abuse organisation. The database now on their website includes Filipino priests accused of sexually abusing minors in the Philippines, Filipino priests who served part of…

Prominent cardinal denies allegations of sexual abuse

Victoria Cardiel / CNA The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Sunday the disciplinary measures that were taken in 2019 against Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, archbishop emeritus of Lima, Peru, as a result of “the accusations [of sexual abuse] formulated against him”. Cipriani broke his silence on Friday, January 24,…

Signs of great hope in Syria

There is still much uncertainty in Syria. A month and a half after the ousting of Bashar al Assad and the seizure of power by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani and his Islamist rebel group Haiat Tahrir al-Sham (Hts), on the one hand scepticism seems to prevail, the fear of a leap backwards towards an imposition of…