Despite the continuing difficulties, Christmas in Gaza this year is filled with faith, hope and resilience, a Latin Patriarchate official said following a three-day pastoral visit. "There is a different spirit. In other visits usually the ...
Super Typhoon Rai has claimed more than 200 lives since making landfall in the Visayas and Mindanao region, Philippine authorities said. "We now have 208 dead and 52 are still missing. As relief efforts continued following ...
Women around the world are participating in the process of the Synod of Bishops, but many of them fear that, despite promises, their voices will not be heard, said speakers at a webinar in Rome. "We ...
Bishops and religious order leaders welcomed an interim redress report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care and said they will look at how they can implement the recommendations. They already have ...
On the 40th anniversary of one of the worst massacres in Latin American history, the head of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador said the diplomatic mission in the country has turned over all pertinent ...
For 1,600 Maronite Catholic children in crisis-stricken Lebanon, Advent has awakened a ray of hope. They were guests at a Christmas Village, organized especially for them by their archdiocese, with help from Catholics in other countries. "The ...
Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick was installed as the new head of Seoul Archdiocese while stressing the need to create a synodal church by accompanying every section of the Catholic community. Some 600 people -- representing the ...
Catholics are facing soaring levels of discrimination in some of the most influential countries in Europe, a new report said. The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance Against Christians in Europe identified the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain ...
The long-planned encounter between Indigenous Canadians and Pope Francis in Rome is being put off while everybody learns more about the omicron variant of COVID-19, according to a joint release from three Indigenous organizations involved ...
Catholics in Singapore are marking the close of yearlong celebrations of the 200th anniversary of church's presence in the city state with activities in a part of the city with historic Catholic roots. The bicentenary celebrations, ...
