Plans for Notre-Dame reopening revealed

A TRIDUUM and an octave of prayer are among the many plans to have a good time the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, over six months, beginning on the feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December), the Archbishop of Paris, the Most Revd Laurent Ulrich, introduced in a pastoral letter final week. The remaining scheduled occasion can be held on Pentecost (8 June) 2025. The Gothic cathedral was gutted by a hearth in 2019 (News, 18 April 2019). Renovations started in October 2021 (News, 1 October 2021) and are anticipated to be full this 12 months. The picture of Notre-Dame can be taken in procession to the cathedral 15 days earlier than the reopening. A triduum, beginning on the night of seven December, will embrace the handover of Notre-Dame from the State to the Church, rededication of the organ, a liturgy with the Magnificat or Te Deum, and vespers. The altar can be consecrated throughout the first mass within the restored cathedral on 8 December. During the octave, a solemn celebration will happen every day with a selected theme. Archbishop Ulrich has known as on dioceses within the province of Paris to organise pilgrimages to the cathedral throughout the ten months. “I propose and even insistently request that this feast, this festive period, be so for the entire Christian people, of all ages and conditions.”

Colorado pastor admits to crypto fraud fees

A US pastor, Eli Regalado, and his spouse, Kaitlyn, have admitted to charges of stealing greater than $1 million from Christian communities in Denver, Colorado, by a cryptocurrency scheme, INDXcoin (Press, 2 February). Mr Regalado mentioned in a video assertion to his followers that he obtained the directive from God and that folks would become profitable from the scheme. The fees are being introduced by the Colorado Division of Securities. Mr Regalado didn’t attend a court docket listening to on Monday of final week. The Mail Online reported that he was at a five-day Christian convention in Zambia on the time, at which he reportedly informed “nodding” crowds: “Here’s God saying money is the answer to everything. God wants to give you money, God doesn’t want money to have you. When you trust the Lord, God uses money to answer the things in your life.”

Eight lifeless after assault on Pentecostal church in DRC

AT LEAST eight folks have been killed and 30 extra have been taken hostage by armed males in an assault on a Pentecostal church in Beni, within the japanese Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Tuesday of final week, Vatican News reviews. The assaults have been attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces, that are affiliated with Islamic State. Five of the folks killed have been praying in a church belonging to the Branhamist Pentecostal group. The assailants have been identified to make incursions into the japanese DRC, burning homes, killing residents, and stealing items. Other sources reported that, on the earlier Saturday, 32 folks have been killed, together with 5 parishioners beheaded in a church, throughout assaults within the north-east of DRC additionally attributed to ADF.