Bethlehem residents returned to the Church of the Nativity as the holy site opened to visitors May 26 after being closed since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But amid the joy was a feeling ...
Lawmakers in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato have shelved a pair of initiatives to legalize abortion, an issue being introduced for debate in legislatures around the country. In a virtual session May 25, a ...
Churches have been rebuilt, new schools have opened, and some of Haiti's religious communities have new convents and rectories to call home. Under a church-led initiative known as PROCHE, the Partnership for the Reconstruction of ...
Sheltering people from one of the strongest storms in more than a decade required convincing affected Indians and Bangladeshi that evacuation centers would have masks and other coronavirus protections in place, a Catholic Relief Services ...
African Church officials and experts say domestic violence is rising during government-enforced measures to fight COVID-19. Now, African Catholic leaders want the crimes tackled. "We need to address the matter urgently. I think fear, panic ...
Border closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have highlighted another "pathology" in modern Ukraine: the practice of commercial surrogacy, said the country's Catholic bishops. Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Eastern-rite Ukrainian ...
With schools closed and classes being taught online, average families are having a tough enough time adapting to new routines and technologies during the ongoing pandemic. But for families of students with special needs, distance ...
Churches in England and Wales must wait until July before they may reopen, under a coronavirus recovery strategy published by the government. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's 50-page blueprint to ease the eight-week national lockdown says ...
The Italian bishops and government have agreed on a protocol to allow the public to be present for liturgical celebrations starting May 18. In an effort to avoid spreading the coronavirus, a series of restrictions ...
Belgium's Brothers of Charity have cut ties with their 15 homes for psychiatric patients after the Vatican stripped the institutions of their Catholic status because euthanasia was permitted on their premises. Brother Rene Stockman, superior ...
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