Patriarch Louis Sako has appealed to the Kurdistan Regional Government to avoid "infighting".
Cloistered Carmelite nuns in Chile are locked in a legal battle with a hydroelectric company, reports Fides.
The ordination of three new priests offers "great hope" to Catholics in Laos, a Church official has said.
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz has hailed Amoris Laetitia as a "tremendous gift" for the Church in the United States.
Mgr Charles Pope urges American Catholics to vote "with a Catholic moral vision" in November's presidential election.
