Religion

Doctor who damaged Japan temples, shrines by performing ‘anointings’ admits to own ‘delusion’

Traces of an oil-like liquid are seen at the Katori-Jingu Shrine in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture.

Britain links Iran to wave of anti-Semitic attacks and calls IRGC a terrorist organisation

A stabbing incident took place in the Golders Green area, which is home to a large Jewish population, in London in April.

Netanyahu says some Lebanese Christian villages ‘asked to be annexed’ by Israel

Christian children displaced from Tyre, in southern Lebanon, play football in the courtyard of the Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarchate in Rabweh, Lebanon.

China frees jailed pastor Ezra Jin

On July 4, rights group ChinaAid said in a statement that pastor Ezra Jin had arrived in Los Angeles after being released from detention in China.

Members of rebel Catholic group in schism, excommunicated: Vatican

The Vatican on July 2 said the two bishops who led the unauthorised ordination had been excommunicated, along with the four priests who had become new bishops.

Rebel Catholic group’s forbidden ordinations caused ‘schism’, Vatican cardinal says

Priests receive blessings from newly ordained priests, after an ordination ceremony of the traditionalist Catholic Society of St Pius X, in Econe, near Sion, western Switzerland, on June 29. Defying Vatican, Society of St Pius X ordained its own bishops on July 1, 2026.

Papal envoy presides over first Vietnam beatification rite

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (centre) attending the beatification mass for Vietnamese Catholic priest Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep in Vietnam on July 2.

Breakaway Catholic society defies Vatican again by ordaining bishops

The Society of Saint Pius X intends to appoint two French, one American and one Swiss as bishops.

Sadness and joy as breakaway Catholic group nears schism

Defying the Vatican, the traditionalist Catholic Society of Saint Pius X will ordain its own bishops on July 1, despite the risk of being considered schismatic.

Pope Leo appeals to Catholic traditionalists to avoid schism

Pope Leo XIV leading a mass on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Rome’s patron saints, at St Peter’s basilica in the Vatican on June 29.

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