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The special synod resolved to seek 50% representation for laity, with women forming up to 40% of that share, in every decision-making body of the church.

After a year of pro-democracy protests in 2019, China in 2020 imposed the national security law, which has all but silenced dissent in Hong Kong, AP reported.

“We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating and using nuclear weapons.”

“It was through his faith that he was able to live the tragedy of the atomic destruction to the truth of its very meaning.”

“Never have we ever faced such a charge (of forceful religious conversion) in our history,” said the mother superior of the Assisi Sisters.

Father Kolbe encouraged the Japanese friars to remain faithful to their mission despite wartime hardships, placing all in Mary’s hands.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts — several U.S. Catholic bishops …

“God is so kind, so good,” he said of his faith experience, adding that he felt he had to “repay” God’s goodness.

In Bangladesh, grief and shock gripped the capital, Dhaka, after a military jet crashed into Milestone School and College on July 21, killing at least 31 and injuring more than …

A court affiliated with Myanmar’s exiled government has sentenced nine men to 20 years in prison for the killing of a Catholic priest in the country’s conflict-torn Sagaing region earlier …