A Sudanese family that expelled an 18-year-old relative from their home in a refugee camp in South Sudan for accepting Christ has dragged a pastor to jail on accusations of kidnapping, sources said.
In a letter marking the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Pope Francis has said that the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation is the “true heart and inspiration” of the poet’s Divine Comedy.
A cardinal who remained in Syria for the entire duration of the 10-year civil war has said that he fears “time is running out” to rebuild the country as it descends into deeper poverty.
Seventy-seven years ago today, Nazis murdered a Polish Catholic family. Now, all nine family members -- including an unborn child -- are on the path to beatification.
Legislators in Spain have passed a law making euthanasia and assisted suicide legal, making it the sixth country in the world, and the fourth in Europe to approve of such practices.
A judge in Oran, Algeria on Monday (March 22) upheld a five-year prison sentence for a Christian convicted of reposting a cartoon of Islam’s prophet on his Facebook account three years ago, sources said.
An experimental pastoral center in the heart of the French capital closed down on March 1 on the instructions of the Archbishop of Paris.
Several top Church officials in Syria, including the Vatican’s ambassador to the country, have praised Pope Francis’s visit to Iraq earlier this month, saying the visit sent a message of hope to the entire region.
Catholic bishops have strongly criticized plans to impose “extreme and discriminatory” abortion services on Northern Ireland.
More than 200 theology professors in the German-speaking world have signed a statement criticizing the Vatican’s rejection of blessings for same-sex couples.
About 18,000 people have evacuated, and emergency services said rising water could displace 54,000 in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state. Some parts of Western Sydney have recorded nea...
