Catholic faithful in Jamaica are responding with “a lot of prayer” as the island nation is battered by what analysts say may be its worst hurricane on record.
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The priest was pastor of San Cristóbal Parish in Mezcala, a region rife with drug cartel activity in what was once Mexico’s heroin-producing heartland.
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A new documentary on the abuses allegedly committed by Father Marko Rupnik and survivors’ pursuit of justice received high praise at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti amid worsening gang violence
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsThe NGO for which the missionary works, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, reported the news with “deep gratitude and a relief that cannot be described in words.”
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(OSV News) –A Canadian court has ruled a Canadian diocesan priest can continue his civil suit against Basilian Father Thomas Rosica and the Basilian Fathers of Toronto, with the plaintiff, …
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Faith-based groups are commending a new pastoral letter from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops calling to wipe out low-income countries’ debt.
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The Trump administration’s crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border has affected not only migrants unable to cross into the U.S. but also those who help them.
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“We raise our voices today to demand freedom for our colleague and friend Gena Heraty.”
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Gena Heraty was among several taken by gunmen in the early hours of Aug. 3 from the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince.
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On March 17, 2027, the law on medical assistance in dying, known as MAiD, is set to expand to include individuals solely living with a mental illness.
