World

(OSV News) — About a dozen Jesuits from all over the world on a search and rescue mission in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert Dec. 20-22 came across eight areas that had remains …

(OSV News) — With a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon barely holding, as both sides accuse each other of violations, hopes for even a fragile peace seem impossible for those …

(OSV News) — Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, traveled to Ukraine for Christmas and celebrated an early midnight Mass before the police curfew in Kharkiv “to pray for peace as …

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (OSV News) — The Christmas spirit in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, was festive yet overshadowed on Christmas Eve by the grim realities of the ongoing Israel-Hamas …

(OSV News) — A Christmas tree was reportedly set ablaze in a Christian-majority town in Syria, prompting protests in the war-torn nation just two weeks after the ouster of former President …

(OSV News) — The papal point man for charity, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, opened a soup kitchen in Fastiv, in Ukraine’s Kyiv region, Dec. 23 and was heading east to Kharkiv …

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Leaders of the Catholic Church in Nigeria expressed deep sorrow at the death of several people at one of the church’s Christmas charity events, as …

Rodrigo Moreno Quicios SEVILLE, Spain (OSV News) — Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, imprisoned for over 500 days in his native Nicaragua and expelled to Rome on Jan. 14, celebrated …

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — “You have become the light of our Church in the entire world,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Gaza Christians Dec. 22 during a pre-Christmas visit aiming to …