The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Catholic Church in Canada was a key theme of the first-ever online plenary assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops this week. Conference president, Archbishop Richard Joseph Gagnon of Winnipeg, feels the new normal for the Church across Canada will include offering more and more services online. A Catholic bishop in northeast India has called for the government to put measures in place to end human trafficking, especially of young girls and boys into prostitution or cheap domestic labour. “The weakening of the Christian community in Lebanon would be a huge loss for the country, the Middle East and, indeed the world,” he added. Tanzania’s government has been urged to adopt a “social market economy” by the country’s Catholic bishops.

Source: Ethiopian News September 25, 2020 15:22 UTC