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Jesuit Missions appoint new director | ICN
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (70+ words) Jonathan will take over from Paul in the second week of May 2026. Tags: Jesuit Missions, Paul Chitnis, Jonathan Heard Highlights from COP30 - Day 6 Vacancy: Director of Jesuit Missions Jesuit Missions and other Jesuit groups gear up for COP30 talks Stations of the…...
Lebanon: Parish in last Christian village on Israeli border remains steadfast | ICN
20+ hour, 31+ min ago (212+ words) Israeli attacks on the morning of April 8 proved that the ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon. Air strikes hit the southern parts of Beirut in southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley - areas where Hezbollah is allegedly more prominently present....
South African Council of Churches makes submission to court on climate obligations, fossil fuel finance | ICN
1+ day, 24+ min ago (282+ words) The South African Council of Churches has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, calling for stronger recognition of states' obligations under the African Charter in addressing the climate crisis and the financing…...
USA: Another bishop condemns war on Iran | ICN
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (435+ words) Bishop John Michael Botean At the beginning of Holy Week, Bishop John Michael Botean of the Romanian Catholic Diocese of St George in Canton, Ohio, released a pastoral letter denouncing the Iran war. In the letter Bishop Botean says: "I…...
Pope welcomes Iran ceasefire, invites faithful to join prayer vigil for peace | ICN
1+ day, 2+ min ago (466+ words) Pope Leo has welcomed today's news of a ceasefire in the Middle East and asks that all parties engage in prolonged dialogue to reach an end to the conflict. He also invites men and women of goodwill across the world…...
Christianity in Kurdistan - from Biblical beginnings to modern fruit | ICN
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (157+ words) Steps to Rabban Hormidz Monastery, Iraq Jeremy Fowler lived for eleven years in Iraqi Kurdistan and is now based in Oxford, working on a biography of Roger Cumberland, an American Presbyterian missionary in the region who was killed in Duhok…...
London: Baroness Scotland to speak at religious freedom conference | ICN
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (535+ words) Source: Aid to the Church in Need Baroness Patricia Scotland, former Secretary-General to the Commonwealth of Nations, is to give a keynote address at a landmark conference in London addressing increasing challenges to religious freedom around the world. A panel…...
Paintings of Prayer and Protest inspired by Laudato Si' | ICN
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (168+ words) An exhibition of works by Helen Elwes and Martin Jarvis, in response to the climate and nature crisis, is taking place at the London Jesuit Centre, 114 Mount Street, London W1 K 3 AH from April 2 - April 28th 2026. On Tuesday 21st April at 7pm there will…...
Irish primary school survey shows strong support for Catholic education | ICN
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (323+ words) "The findings indicate a continued high level of confidence in Catholic schools. While a proportion of parents expressed a preference for change, this represents approximately 16% of all eligible households, with the majority signalling support for the current model of provision....
New Orwell film a warning from history | ICN
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (369+ words) For Orwell, totalitarian states are theocracies, in that within the nefarious sphere of their far-reaching and all-pervading influence 'we live and move and have our being.' 2+2=5 seizes upon GO's dystopian 1984 and many of his other works and diaries to provide…...