Global Church News

English and Welsh Bishops to discuss Bible, Youth and Eucharist.

Nov 13, 2018

The November plenary session of the English and Welsh Bishops’ Conference will meet to plan a year for studying the Bible, as well as hearing feedback from events both at home and in the Vatican.
Without God, social media is ‘destructive’

Nov 13, 2018

The archbishop tells online missionaries that if people use the new forms of communication irresponsibly, they "can divide and deceive" and cause the “slow death for our cherished values and virtues”.
After 100 years, US Catholicism still bears the stamp of World War I

Nov 12, 2018

A century after the close of World War I, the war has faded from living memory. But its effects endure.
Sr Thea Bowman's cause for canonization could open at US Bishops' meeting

Nov 12, 2018

Sr. Thea Bowman was the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops' conference. Most likely, she was also the first person to get them to hold hands and sing and sway to a Negro Spiritual.
Fr Dall'Oglio, the extreme sacrifice of a radical witness of Christ to build bridges towards Islam

Nov 10, 2018

Five years after he went missing, an event still shrouded in mystery, a seminar was held in Beirut dedicated to the Jesuit missionary in Syria who challenged the country’s regime and tried to deal with jihadis. His parents “call for every effort to be made to know his fate”.
The Church online: Synod calls for virtuous digital outreach

Nov 09, 2018

“Log on, but bring your brain, your Bible and your Christian values with you” could summarise one of the Synod of Bishops’ messages to Catholics, young and old.
India blocks 800 websites, reviving 2015 porn ban

Nov 09, 2018

After Nepal banned thousands of pornographic websites last month, India has resurrected its internet pornography ban, blocking more than 800 major porn sites in an attempt to curb the country’s spate of sexual violence.
Vietnam interfaith gathering commemorates three ancestors

Nov 09, 2018

Participants in an interfaith gathering in Vietnam complimented religious leaders and Catholic intellectuals on their contributions to serving people.
India honours prominent theologian

Nov 09, 2018

Jesuit Fr Kurien Kunnumpuram, a noted Indian theologian, died just five days after his admirers organised a two-day national seminar to honour him.
Flooding damages St Mark’s Basilica in Venice

Nov 09, 2018

Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice was flooded with nearly three feet of water this week, damaging part of the 1,000 year old marble mosaic floor inside.