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Sacked care home worker’s vaccine beliefs were religious, employment judge rules

A care worker who was dismissed because she refused to have a coronavirus vaccine can argue that her reasons were religious, an employment judge has ruled. Patrycja Wierowska worked as a carer for HC-One care homes until she was fired on April 28, ...

19 Aug 2022 at 12:07

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Pope Francis meets transgender group sheltered by Rome church

Pope Francis has met a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church. The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano said the meeting took place Wednesday. The newspaper quoted Sister Genevieve Jeanningros as saying the pope’s ...

11 Aug 2022 at 12:53

Survivors of mother and baby homes and workhouses urged to speak to police

Survivors of mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses have been urged to speak to police. Detectives are investigating allegations of abuse at the institutions which were formerly run primarily by the Catholic Church, but also ...

09 Aug 2022 at 17:36

Pope apologises for ‘catastrophic’ school abuses in Canada

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Pope apologises for ‘devastating’ school abuses in Canada

Pope Francis has apologised for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of indigenous residential schools. He said the forced assimilation of native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, ...

26 Jul 2022 at 23:33

Claudy families pursue Catholic Church over late priest’s alleged involvement

A number of families who were bereaved in the IRA’s bombing of Claudy are continuing legal action against the Catholic Church. Nine people were killed on August 31, 1972 when three car bombs devastated the County Derry village. It was ...

28 Jul 2022 at 12:00

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CLAUDY BOMBING: 50 years of inexplicable pain as hope for truth dwindles

The view from Claudy's sloping Main Street on a summer's morning is idyllic. Green hedges skirt the edges of sprawling fields in the Faughan Valley below. Houses lie dotted across the land that leads to and surrounds Feeny and ...

28 Jul 2022 at 13:33

World

Pope apologises for ‘devastating’ school abuses in Canada

26 Jul 2022 at 10:27

UK is ‘horrified’ by ‘heinous’ Nigeria church attack, says minister

The UK is “horrified” by a “heinous” attack on a Catholic church in south-western Nigeria which took place on Sunday night, a minister has said. Vicky Ford’s comments came as Conservative MP for Congleton Fiona Bruce raised ...

06 Jun 2022 at 18:59

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First hybrid General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to open

The first hybrid General Assembly of the Church of Scotland opens this weekend and will consider issues including voting on whether clergy can conduct same-sex marriages. Around 400 ministers, elders, deacons and special ...

21 May 2022 at 03:45

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Irish archbishop wants to house refugees in Catholic Church's unused buildings

The Catholic Church is exploring whether some of its unused buildings in Ireland can be repurposed to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. Primate of Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin said the scoping exercise was at its early ...

16 Mar 2022 at 17:33

Northern Ireland

Catholic Church explores using unused buildings to house Ukrainian refugees

The Catholic Church is exploring whether some of its unused buildings on the island of Ireland can be repurposed to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. Primate of Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin said the scoping exercise ...

16 Mar 2022 at 15:55

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Pope Francis visits Italian prison for Holy Week foot-washing ritual

Pope Francis has travelled to a prison near Rome to wash the feet of a dozen inmates, a Holy Thursday ritual that symbolises humility and highlights his papacy’s attention to those on society’s margins. He arrived ...

14 Apr 2022 at 18:25

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