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Indonesia’s Ash Wednesday services have to shift for tense elections in world’s third largest democracy 

Chaos deepens as Dutch bishops collectively reject blessings for same-sex couples

Africans praise peer for demanding end to Nigeria's Christian 'genocide'

yaoundè, cameroon — a leading catholic research entity in africa has welcomed the call by a british catholic politician for urgent action to...

Record number of Catholic priests arrested, abducted or murdered in 2023

last year 132 priests and religious were arrested, abducted or killed globally, according to latest research. belarus, china, nicaragua and ...

Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians raised in UK House of Lords

Ecuadorian Catholics negotiate and pray during prison riot crisis

são paulo, brazil – one week after a drug lord escaped from prison and detonated an unprecedented crisis of violence in ecuador, local catho...

Prayers answered: Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for life gains freedom, though exiled to Vatican

nicaragua has released a bishop jailed for 26 years after he stood up to the regime of president daniel ortega. bishop rolando álvarez of ma...

Cameroon bishops denounce Boko Haram atrocities as terrorist group wages war to create African ‘Islamic caliphate’

yaoundè – catholic bishops in the west african nation of cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict for the past seven years, have d...

New poll finds Pope’s unfavourable rating among Americans at all-time high

new york – a new survey conducted this past december has found that while most american adults still have a favourable view of pope francis,...

African bishops reject same-sex blessings en masse

Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick deemed not competent to stand trial in abuse case

new york – a wisconsin judge on 10 january suspended a sexual assault case against theodore mccarrick after a court-appointed psychologist f...

US criticised for not addressing mounting 'genocide’ against Christians during bloody ‘Islamisation’ of Nigeria

yaoundè, cameroon – with nigerians sounding alarms over what some describe as a mounting “genocide” against christians in africa’s most popu...

Irish Medical Council endorses 'fundamental shift' in medical ethics paving way for government euthanasia push

the irish medical council has updated its ethical guidelines for doctors. the standout change—and a disturbing change, especially given the ...

US bishops back 'Bread Not Stones’ campaign against military-industrial complex

new york – seventeen us bishops have thrown their weight behind a campaign to encourage congress to redirect military spending towards helpi...

Saint Paul & Minneapolis: ministry of 'imprudent' Archbishop Nienstedt inhibited

new york – a vatican investigation into alleged misconduct by former saint paul & minneapolis archbishop john nienstedt has cleared him ...

Pope Francis: Baptism 'the most beautiful gift' that Catholics can give their children

Sudanese bishops plead for peace as fighting claims 12,000 lives in under a year

yaoundè, cameroon – as a deadly conflict continues to rage in sudan, catholic bishops both inside the country and in neighbouring south suda...

Italian priest excommunicated for calling Francis 'anti-pope', 'usurper' and 'mason'

‘Deteriorating situation’: Persecution of Catholic Church in Nicaragua

new york – archbishop thomas wenski of miami has said nicaragua's dictatorship has gone “off the rails” with the latest round of arrests of ...

Benedict Rogers: My journey into the Church and the plight of Christians in China

Lockdown lessons must be learned: don't shut down the Mass

Scattering the ashes