By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – A large crowd protested in Armenia’s capital Yerevan on Sunday against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, led by a Christian cleric who announced the start of four days of rallies to seek to drive him from office. Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is seeking to tap into popular anger over military defeats and […]
Peers in the UK’s House of Lords have inflicted further heavy defeats against UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s proposed Rwanda asylum law as the Archbishop of Canterbury – a leading critic of the legislation – was told to “check his white privilege”. Peers backed by 278 votes to 189, majority 89, a move to overturn […]
Six nuns and two others kidnapped in Haiti last week have been released, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press on Thursday. The group was released late on Wednesday and everyone is in good condition, said Archbishop Max Leroy Mesidor. “Thanks to God for helping us,” he said. He declined to say whether a […]
Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church faced a crisis in 2023 when a group of rebel archbishops created a dissident synod. The rift was eventually resolved but disinformation linked to the incident continues to circulate online. In one recent example, the church’s general secretary was accused of fleeing to the United States for ethnic defamation and “instigating conflicts”, […]