Violence

(OSV News) — A recent massacre in Haiti that killed at least 115 people shows “the deteriorating situation in Haiti has yet ‘to touch bottom,’” Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of …

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (OSV News) — Father Christophe Komla Badjougou, a priest of the Diocese of Yagoua in northern Cameroon, was in Yaoundé to get his visa to Italy, when he …

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — A Philadelphia priest assaulted in his rectory said the attack marked a “turning point” that forced him “to reflect deeply on life, faith and the forces …

(OSV News) — The Catholic bishops of Atlanta prayed “for healing and strength” for those injured during a Sept. 4 mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, where …

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — With the approaching one-year mark of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, spurred by the Hamas attack on southern Israeli agricultural communities Oct. 7, the …

LOS ANGELES (OSV News) — A preliminary hearing date was scheduled in the case of the man suspected in the shooting death of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell in …

BALTIMORE (OSV News) — Baltimore City police confirmed that after more than a year they have made an arrest in an assault of two elderly Catholic pro-life activists outside a …

(OSV News) — Catholic and civic leaders called for peace and unity in the hours after former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet and a spectator was killed …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Barely eight days before Mexico was scheduled to head to the polls on June 2, the president of the Mexican bishops’ conference issued an urgent …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Bishops in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state have warned that conditions for holding elections are lacking after the May 12 massacre of 11 people — including …