December 2024

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (OSV News) — In the birthplace of hope, Shibly Kando’s Christmas is marked by uncertainty as war has left his long-planned shop empty and his community struggling …

(OSV News) — About a dozen Jesuits from all over the world on a search and rescue mission in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert Dec. 20-22 came across eight areas that had remains …

(OSV News) — The December reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a devastating 2019 fire marked “a beautiful symmetry” with a similar project underway in a U.S. diocese, a …

(OSV News) — For Catholics who wrestle with mental health challenges, the mixed messages they often receive can do little to relieve the anguish they experience. Their fellow faithful — emphasizing …

(OSV News) — While the Supreme Court has delayed consideration on a pair of cases that may allow sidewalk protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as 8 feet …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God wants to save each and every person, and Christians are called to give witness to that fact by praying even for people who have harmed …

ROME (CNS) — Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome’s Rebibbia prison complex …

(OSV News) — With a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon barely holding, as both sides accuse each other of violations, hopes for even a fragile peace seem impossible for those …

(OSV News) — Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, traveled to Ukraine for Christmas and celebrated an early midnight Mass before the police curfew in Kharkiv “to pray for peace as …

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (OSV News) — The Christmas spirit in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, was festive yet overshadowed on Christmas Eve by the grim realities of the ongoing Israel-Hamas …