Religion

A HUGE statue of Jesus Christ was erected Saturday in a small Polish town, marking the end of a five-year project led by the local priest that has divided opinion throughout the country. The statue […] […]

POPE Benedict XVI has warned of the return of a 1930s-style “aggressive” anti-clericism in Spain, and has called on Europe to rediscover its Christian roots. The 83-year-old Pontiff, fighting a slide away from the Roman […] […]

BRITAIN’S Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to announce the resignation of two bishops on Monday, in the first of what is feared will be a wave of departures from the Church of England by traditionalists […] […]

HAVANA—Cuban President Raul Castro joined an American archbishop and other Roman Catholic leaders Wednesday to open a national seminary on the outskirts Havana, the first religious construction on the communist-run island in more than a […] […]

THE embattled head of Belgium’s Roman Catholic church today defended his controversial remarks on AIDS, gays and paedophile priests, insisting that his words had been twisted. Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard has been accused of homophobia and […] […]

JERUSALEM—When Hillary Rubin immigrated from the U.S. to Israel, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and descendant of a famed Zionist visionary felt that she had finally arrived in her true home. But now that religious […] […]

MONTREAL—A holdout compared to other provinces in giving sexual abuse victims the benefit of the doubt, Quebec courts will now have to think twice before throwing out cases where the alleged abuse happened many years […] […]

THE Vatican has issued one of its strongest condemnations yet of Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank. It has rejected the use of biblical texts by Jewish settlers to justify “injustices”. Releasing a strongly worded […] […]

CATHOLIC bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end of a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI. In a final statement of […] […]