C Joseph Vijay, a 51-year-old film star-turned-politician, was sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Sunday, becoming the first Christian to hold the office in the second-most-populous southern
The Australian state of Queensland has voted to become the fifth state in the country to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia. The state’s Catholic bishops had strongly advised against the legal change.
The report, "British Ritual Innovation under Covid-19", suggests hybrid is here to stay but the experience needs to be improved.
Filipino Catholics in the Washington area made a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to celebrate a 500-year journey of faith that continues.
The lower house of Chile’s Congress took a step toward decriminalizing abortion in most cases Tuesday, voting to craft a law barring prosecution of women who get abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Armed conflict continues to cause death and displacement in South Sudan, pushing Catholic leaders here to plead for the conflict’s victims.
Peru’s most popular Catholic procession, the Lord of Miracles, has been canceled for the second straight year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the archbishopric of Lima announced Tuesday.
Dozens of people have been killed in a series of attacks in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna.
With 1.5 million Catholics, Brooklyn is the fifth-largest U.S. diocese.
Christians in Afghanistan are leaving the cities in a bid to evade the Taliban, according to partners of Release International.
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