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EU membership "hasn't helped quell neo-fascism in Croatia"
Author Michael Freund writes that Croatia is "home to perhaps one of the largest, most pervasive and troubling revivals of neo-fascism in recent decades" in all of the EU.
Croatian Franciscans to Expel Friar for Sex Abuse
Croatia's powerful Catholic Church has said an investigation into a member of the Franciscan monastery in Split, Gracijan Gasperov, for paedophilia, was in "the final stage" - and that because he is considered guilty, he will receive "the hardest canonical punishment", meaning expulusion from the Order and from the clergy.
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Boyko Borissov Invited Pope Francis to Visit Our Country
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov invited Pope Francis to visit our country. In turn, the head of the Roman Catholic Church promised by 2019 to visit Bulgaria, Romania and other Balkan countries.
This was announced by the prime minister himself in his Facebook profile after his audience today with the pope.
In Pictures: Pilgrims Follow Mother Theresa to Kosovo Mountain Church
The village of Letnica, in the mountains 70 kilometres east of Pristina, near Kosovo's border with Macedonia, is best known for its whitewashed Catholic church.
This is the church where, in 1928, Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu - better known as Mother Theresa - said she was called by God to begin her charity mission in Calcutta, India.
Croatia Pushes Treaty on Violence Against Women Despite Protests
The Croatian government urged parliament on Thursday to ratify a European treaty designed to combat violence against women despite opposition within the ruling party, among conservative groups and from the local Catholic Church.
Cardinal’s alleged victims end testimony in Australia court
The alleged victims of the most senior Vatican official charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis finished testifying to an Australian court on March 14.
Most Stores Shut in Poland as Sunday Trade Ban Takes Effect
A new Polish law banning almost all trade on Sundays has taken effect, with large supermarkets and most other retailers closed for the first time since liberal shopping laws were introduced in the 1990s after communism's collapse.
Bulgaria Scraps Plan to Ratify Women's Violence Convention
On the eve of International Women's day, Bulgaria's government on Wednesday voted to withdraw its January 3 decision to send the Council of Europe's convention on preventing and combating violence against women, known as the Istanbul Convention, to parliament for ratification.
Caritas Hellas Exhibition | Athens | To March 16
Caritas Hellas has put together an exhibition of photographs taken by 28 asylum seekers aged 16 to 41 who participated in a photography workshop organized by the Catholic Church charity. "Athens: My City," is on display at the Metapolis Gallery and visiting hours are Tuesdays to Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Pope Condemns 'Evil' of Fake News and its Use for Political Gain
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the "evil" of fake news, saying journalists and social media users should shun and unmask manipulative "snake tactics" that foment division to serve political and economic interests, Reuters reported.
"Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive