KINGSTOWN (CMC): A Roman Catholic priest appeared in the Family Court here on Monday charged with two counts of sexual offences. The priest, a foreign national, was arraigned on two counts or rape and two counts of indecent assault and appeared.
A Roman Catholic priest serving in the Diocese of Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines was on Monday charged with rape and indecent assault. Kizito Igwebudul, a national of Nigeria, appeared in camera at the Family Court (sitting at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court) on October 23 before Magistrate John Ballah, where the indictable charges were laid against him. The priest was charged with two counts of rape and two counts …
Vatican City, Apr 23, 2021 / 08:00 am America/Denver (CNA).
Pope Francis expressed his solidarity on Friday with the thousands of people displaced by ongoing volcanic eruptions on the island of St. Vincent in the southern Caribbean.
The eruption of La Soufrière volcano displaced close to 20,000 people and left the entire main island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines with limited access to clean water, according to the United Nations.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, sent a telegram on the pope’s behalf expressing “heartfelt solidarity with the many displaced persons forced to evacuate their homes and seek shelter from the effects of this disaster.”
Catholics mobilize to help evacuees from Caribbean volcano
Ash and smoke billow as the La Soufrière volcano erupts as seen from Kingstown April 9, 2021, on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (CNS photo/Robertson S. Henry, Reuters)
By Laura Ann Phillips • Catholic News Service • Posted April 13, 2021
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CNS) Despite COVID-19 restrictions and various challenges posed by continuous volcanic eruptions and ashfall on St. Vincent and the Grenadines and neighboring islands, dioceses in the West Indies have rallied to the aid of those affected by La Soufrière volcano.
“There is an immediate response with the things they need most,” said Archbishop Jason Gordon of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 10. “Once we get that done, then we start working with them to consider the scale of the problem and what kind of response will be needed.”