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Carlo Acutis, a digital pioneer, used his computer skills to spread Catholic teaching globally. Published On 7 Sep 20257 Sep 2025 A London-born Italian teenager, known as “God’s influencer”, who was an early adopter of the internet to spread Catholic teachings, has been made the church’s first millennial saint at a ceremony led by Pope…
Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025 An Italian teenager called “God’s Influencer” is to become the first millennial Catholic saint at a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to attend Sunday’s canonisation in St Peter’s Square of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in…
Israeli forces have bulldozed a minaret under construction for a mosque in the town of Dura, in the occupied West Bank. Source link
The Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret have reopened in Iraq, eight years after being destroyed by ISIL. Source link
One of Pakistan’s most famous Sikh temples was flooded after heavy rains submerged parts of Punjab province. Source link
Hundreds of residents gathered at a beach in Yokosuka city’s Kurihama area, south of Tokyo, over the weekend to pray for marine safety in a summer festival that fuses sacred ritual and seaside spectacle. As a portable shrine called mikoshi, decorated with Shinto ornaments, was lifted onto bearers’ shoulders, the audience cheered. The mikoshi had…
Overhead power line reportedly snaps and falls onto a part of the crowd, triggering panic among devotees. At least six people have been killed and dozens injured in a crush after a large crowd gathered at a popular Hindu temple in northern India’s Uttarakhand state. The incident at the Mansa Devi Temple in Haridwar city…
The murder of Wadee Alfayoumi and attack on his mother stand as one of the worst hate crimes in the US since Gaza war began. A United States landlord who was jailed for decades for the horrific October 2023 stabbing death of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, and for critically injuring his mother, has died in…
NewsFeed A former cleaner claims he was forced to bury the bodies of hundreds of women and girls, on the orders of supervisors at one of southern India’s most revered temples. As Soraya Lennie explains, the case has shocked the country and sparked accusations of a three-decade old cover up. Published On 25 Jul 202525…
NewsFeed Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III condemned Israel’s bombardment and blockade of Gaza as “morally unacceptable” after a rare visit to the besieged territory on July 18. Their trip followed an Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church, which killed three people. Published On 22 Jul 202522 Jul…
