India

Church and world leaders offered prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery to Pope Leo XIV following the Vatican’s announcement that he was diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery …

Cardinal Ferrão, the president of India’s bishops’ conference and archbishop of Goa and Daman, talked about a parish’s success with pastoral family visits and phone-free family evenings.

Interactions with the two revered holy figures — as they journeyed on the living path to sainthood — have had a profound impact on Father Kiran’s life.

Christian leaders have urged the Hindu nationalists’ government in India to speak out forcefully against Christian persecution and ensure accountability.

As 2025 draws to a close, the plight of persecuted Christians around the world remains dire — and in many places, deeply forgotten.

The pope also signed decrees recognizing the martyrdom of 11 Spaniards and the heroic virtues of three other candidates during an audience at the Vatican Dec. 18.

Blessed Eliswa is “a source of inspiration for all those who work, in the Church and in society, for the dignity of women,” the pope said.

A Franciscan monastery that survived an atomic bombing, the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, young adult groups inspired by Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and more were in our news coverage …

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

The Vatican has ended its direct pontifical oversight of an Indian archdiocese after settling the long-standing liturgy dispute in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.