The long-planned encounter between Indigenous Canadians and Pope Francis in Rome is being put off while everybody learns more about the omicron variant of COVID-19, according to a joint release from three Indigenous organizations involved ...
Catholics in Singapore are marking the close of yearlong celebrations of the 200th anniversary of church's presence in the city state with activities in a part of the city with historic Catholic roots. The bicentenary celebrations, ...
The Swiss bishops' conference and the nation's conference of religious orders have commissioned an independent study of sexual abuse cases within the Catholic Church in the country during the second half of the 20th century. In ...
The newly installed Catholic bishop of Hong Kong promised action to heal Catholics and the wider society, divided because of the Chinese action to suppress a two-year-long protest seeking democratic freedoms. Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, 62, ...
Myanmar's military continues to target churches in predominantly Christian regions in the Buddhist-majority country, ignoring appeals by the Catholic Church and world leaders, reported ucanews.com. The latest military assault on Christians in Myanmar's ethnic regions is ...
Walking through this mainly Christian town outside of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, it's easy to see many changes since the victims of Islamic State militants fled here for safety seven years ago. Gone are ...
Some of the world's most iconic Christmas markets in Germany and Austria were forced to close shortly after or just before they opened, as COVID-19 infections surged across Europe. After the 2020 pre-vaccine, lockdowned Christmas season ...
A young Catholic priest has been beatified as a martyr in Poland, nearly eight decades after he was guillotined by wartime Nazi occupiers for clandestine charity work. Blessed Jan Macha "died, like the grain of wheat, ...
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales announced a delay in their plans to restore the obligation to go to Mass on Sundays because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In July, they set a target to ...
New Zealand's bishops said they will ensure that people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely attend Mass under a new system, while warning that unvaccinated priests will be limited in their ministry. Under ...
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