Tom Heneghan

French imams, chaplains seek ways to combat Islamist radicalisation

August 25, 2021 at 5:54 a.m.

By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - Islamic prayer leaders and prison chaplains in France, jolted by a French Islamist's killing spree at the Brussels Jewish Museum, have begun discussing ways...

French imams, chaplains seek ways to combat Islamist radicalisation

May 14, 2019 at 6:11 a.m.

By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - Islamic prayer leaders and prison chaplains in France, jolted by a French Islamist's killing spree at the Brussels Jewish Museum, have begun discussing ways...

Religious tensions deepen Ukraine splits – Russian Orthodox official

August 25, 2021 at 5:02 a.m.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Religious tensions are deepening dividing lines in Ukraine's crisis, with rival churches taking political sides and Kiev slighting the Russian Orthodox Church, a senior official of the...

Islamic officials condemn kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls

August 25, 2021 at 4:47 a.m.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamic scholars and human rights officials of the world's largest Muslim organization on Thursday denounced the mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by the militant group Boko Haram...

Vatican urges sex abuse critics not to stay “fossilized in past”

August 25, 2021 at 4:35 a.m.

By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Heneghan GENEVA (Reuters) - The Vatican told critics of its sexual abuse record on Tuesday that it had developed model child protection policies over the...

Second dead Dutch bishop found guilty of sex abuse of minors

August 25, 2021 at 4:20 a.m.

* Archdiocese says abuse commission confirmed complaints * Amsterdam newspaper uncovered story * Few bishops have been named as abusers themselves PARIS (Reuters) - The Dutch Catholic Church, in the...

Papal canonizations a lesson in subtle art of Catholic politics

August 25, 2021 at 4:20 a.m.

(Reuters) - When the late Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints on Sunday, the Vatican ceremony will be both a spiritual event for Roman Catholicism and...

Second dead Dutch bishop found guilty of sex abuse of minors

May 14, 2019 at 5:57 a.m.

Papal canonizations a lesson in subtle art of Catholic politics

May 14, 2019 at 5:57 a.m.

(Reuters) - When the late Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints on Sunday, the Vatican ceremony will be both a spiritual event for Roman Catholicism and...

Czech priest wins $1.83 million Templeton Prize

August 25, 2021 at 2:54 a.m.

(Reuters) - A Czech Catholic priest whose theology of paradox invites believers and atheists to dialogue has won the 2014 Templeton Prize, worth $1.83 million, for his work affirming the...

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