
Ukraine war: Metropolitan Hilarion suspended from post at Swiss university
Metropolitan Hilarion is one of the most prominent figures in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitan Hilarion is one of the most prominent figures in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Spanish parliamentarians are tasking the country’s ombudsman with the first official investigation into the depth of sexual abuse committed by employees of Spain’s Catholic Church.

The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk opened its doors to people fleeing Russian bombing in other parts of Ukraine and what it found were not only guests but volunteers.

Following news reports about the war in Ukraine is important, Cardinal Michael Czerny said, but meeting the victims of that war — the people forced to flee — has a different impact.

European bishops, both Catholic and Russian Orthodox, are pleading for the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, to ask Vladimir Putin to stop the war against Ukraine.

A Catholic professor said Russia’s clergy fear arrest if they question the war against Ukraine and warned the church now faced a “new era of silence.”

From young and old to women and men, the people of Ukraine are putting their lives on the line to defend their nation. Even though they lack military experience and training, they're taking up arms and preparing for the fight.

A church security guard was killed in the kidnapping of a Roman Catholic priest at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday (March 8) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.

The besieged city of Mariupol is known as the ‘City of Mary.’

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