Tag: Priests
Report reveals COVID-19’s toll on Catholic priests and religious
The Associated Press suggests that COVID-19 deaths may compound the shortage of Catholic priests.
Indian Church loses some 160 priests to Covid-19
As India continues to reel under the unrelenting waves of Covid-19 infections, averaging 4,000 deaths each day, the virus is also taking a heavy toll on the country’s Catholic priests.
Priests and Carmelite nuns of the KK Archdiocese respond to KKM vaccination program
21 priests of the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu and 20 Carmelite cloistered nuns responded to the vaccination program by the Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) May 19.
Covid-19 claims 10 Catholic priests in one day
As many as ten Catholic priests succumbed to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours in India, according information arriving from various parts of the country.
The number of priests in Asia and Africa has increased in five years
In the past five years, the number of priests in Asia and Africa has increased, but their number worldwide has decreased, albeit by very little, this according to the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae (Statistical Yearbook of the Church).
Pope Francis thanks elderly and sick priests for their faithful witness
The Pope sends a message to those participating in the Day of Prayer and Fraternity for elderly and sick priests in the Italy’s Lombardy region.