Catholic Church

'Catholicism in Numbers': New data highlights the changing Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland

a new set of pastoral statistics regarding the catholic church in england and wales, scotland and ireland has been released by the catholic ...
TimKinnear

'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day

it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...
vivboland

New UK director of Word on Fire hopes to set Britain on fire

katherine bennett talks to brenden thompson, the new uk director of word on fire, about establishing the ministry here. in the nowhere place...
Katherine Bennett

Irish-born Los Angeles bishop among 20 'missionaries' who died violently in 2023

a total of 20 missionaries – including an irish-born american bishop – died violently in the service of the faith during 2023, according to ...
Simon Caldwell

Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy

police in nicaragua have arrested two more catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go i...
Simon Caldwell

Rift widens over gay blessings as Hungarian bishops reject them but Indian cardinal says yes

india’s most senior cardinal has defended fiducia supplicans - the controversial new vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for sam...
Simon Caldwell

'On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

on the fifth day of christmas, the carol sends to us five gold rings. it is also the day on which the church remembers st thomas becket, the...
James Willoughby

Christmas attacks against Christians in Nigeria leave at least 160 dead

yaoundè, cameroon ( crux ) – attacks across nigeria’s central plateau state on christmas eve left at least 160 people dead and about 300 oth...
Ngala Chimtom

Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community just got a Christmas Eve boost

ulaanbaatar – one of the world’s smallest catholic flocks is growing in number, after the mongolian church added three native women to its r...
Elise Allen

Zelensky’s move against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a step too far

they say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the situation in ukraine is getting increasingly desperate for pres...
Robert Amsterdam