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Church leaders offer prayers after Mexico City metro crash The site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it is seen at Olivos station in Mexico City May 4, 2021. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters) By David Agren • Catholic News Service • Posted May 4, 2021 MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Mexican church leaders offered prayers for the victims of a metro line collapse that left at least 23 dead and more than 70 people injured. Bishop Andrés Vargas Peña of Xochimilco — which serves three southern boroughs in Mexico City — offered condolences to the victims, whil...

Hungarian Catholic Church Leaders Filed Charges Against a Victim of Sexual Abuse 102 Thousands of cases of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests have in recent years shaken the Church to its foundations as it sought to crack down on centuries of misconduct while simultaneously managing the fallout with a centuries-old tradition of secrecy. As the scope of the problem became more well known after the beginning of this century, priests and Catholic dioceses across the world were forced to reckon with their acts of abuse and abetment, a process that ultimately rose to the highest leve...

Michael Nnadi “Change your evil ways or perish” Nigeria, according to many worldwide indices, is one of the worst nations in the world for religious freedom and the rule of law. Christians, who make up roughly half the population, are specially targeted for persecution and death in Muslim areas. One December 2020 report by the Heritage Foundation cited just one example: “The Fulani raiders arrived under cover of darkness with their jihadist chants and their AK-47s. The marauders swiftly maimed and murdered Christians while burning down every structure and pillaging what remained. Hundre...