Pope Francis and Ukrainian families in Rome will gather May 31 before a statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, to recite the rosary for peace in Ukraine and in other places at war.
Pope Benedict XV ...
Hundreds of people gathered in this tiny Andean village for the burial of the remains of 50 victims of a brutal massacre committed by Peruvian soldiers in 1985.
For a day and a half before the ...
Mexico's Supreme Court upheld a norm that requires state-level health secretariats to provide access to abortion in the case of rape and incest. The May 24 court decision also reaffirmed a provision in the norm ...
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and several others pleaded not guilty in a Hong Kong court to charges of failing to properly register a now-defunct fund to help anti-government protesters.
The 90-year-old cardinal was detained May 11 ...
The Parliament of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, has passed a law allowing people to choose assisted dying under certain circumstances. It was the last of the country's six states to enact such ...
Seeing scenes of a war on television is one thing, "touching this reality is another," Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, said in Ukraine.
"I want to show support and solidarity, also in the name ...
In a stretch of land known as Las Aradas, in a remote part of northern El Salvador bordering Honduras, Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez blessed the monument, sprinkling holy water on top of the bricks ...
One of South Korea's most senior clergymen says he believes the Catholic Church in communist North Korea is growing, although Catholics live in hiding and endure persecution.
Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi, 97, former head of the ...
Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation and Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina, Saskatchewan, have been walking together for some time now -- including through the work of ground-penetrating radar and finding 751 hits ...
Facing the trauma of conflict requires love and hope, and Caritas has been hard at work sharing this "medicine" with everyone, said the director of Caritas-Spes.
The war will not end with just a peace agreement, ...