Polish Capuchin Franciscan missionaries have opened the first music school in the Central African Republic in hopes of preventing children from being drafted into paramilitary groups. About 100 students study each afternoon with professional musicians from ...
Catholics in Spain are angry about a new education law that would downgrade religious teaching and restrict state funding for Catholic schools. If the legislation is approved in the Senate by the end of December, it ...
Poland's bishops' conference decried attacks on churches by demonstrators protesting a near-total ban on abortions by the country's Constitutional Court and urged restraint from violence and dialogue. Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, conference president, acknowledged that ...
Catholic Church officials in Russia criticized planned religious law changes that will require all clergy who studied abroad to retrain in a Russian college. "Like other confessions, we find it absurd to talk of recertifying priests ...
The president of the Belarusian bishops' conference has been barred from reentering his country from abroad, after warning in a pastoral letter that the nation's worsening crisis could spill into civil war. "Returning to Minsk, I ...
Bishops in Belarus demanded an end to repression and confirmed Catholic clergy and laypeople were beaten and jailed during street protests following disputed Aug. 9 elections. "The beating of peaceful demonstrators who want to know the ...
An international virtual pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Lourdes, France, will "affirm the power of prayer" against COVID-19, said the shrine's vice rector. "Lourdes is all about spiritual and physical healing, and we've received 15,000 prayer ...
