The President of Taiwan has just appointed Chen Chien-jen as Prime Minister. A devout Catholic and renowned epidemiologist, the new head of government will have a lot to do in a deteriorated situation with Beijing.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the new Israeli Prime Minister, was sworn in on December 29 before the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, after the vote of 63 deputies out of the 120 in Parliament in favor of his government.
Researchers from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, recently published a study on Sunday practice within the Catholic Church in the world.
On the plains of Nineveh, the renaissance of a Dominican convent destroyed by jihadists constitutes a sign of hope for Christians still present in the area and a sign of hope for the Iraqi Christian diaspora.
In 2022-23, there are only 48 new candidates for the priesthood in the seminaries of the 27 dioceses of Germany. This emerges from an interim report by the German Bishops' Conference (DBK), published on January 25, 2023.