(OSV News) — River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to …
Europe
-
-
SAINT-OMER, France (OSV News) — A man was taken into police custody after a major fire broke out at the historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the northern French …
-
(OSV News) — A study published in July revealed that a new analysis of the Shroud of Turin, including the composition and a microscopic analysis of bloodstains, shows that the …
-
Carmelites find St. Teresa of Ávila’s body still incorrupt after opening coffin for study of relics
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsALBA DE TORMES, Spain (OSV News) — The silver coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened in Alba de Tormes Aug. 28 only to confirm her body has remained …
-
(OSV News) — Faith, prayer and a transcendent hope in Christ sustained a Ukrainian Catholic priest amid more than a year and a half of Russian captivity and torture — …
-
(OSV News) — Catholics in the Southern Italian city of Enna, Sicily, protested the local church’s role in covering up sexual abuse after a court recently ruled that the diocesan …
-
British pro-lifer given payout after her arrest for praying silently calls the law ‘Orwellian’
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsLONDON (OSV News) — A Catholic pro-life volunteer, twice arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, has received a payout from the U.K. police force who arrested her. Speaking …
-
PARIS (OSV News) — During the Paris Olympic Games, track and field champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line at Saint-Denis’ Stade de France. In December, …
-
LOURDES, France (OSV News) — If there is one place in the world where it’s worth spending the Aug. 15 feast of the Assumption at least once in a lifetime, …
-
LONDON (OSV News) — Prominent Catholics have joined church leaders in condemning a wave of riots across the United Kingdom, while also urging greater understanding of current social grievances. “The …
