Global Church News

  • Catholic students committed to “missionary discipleship” in Ho Chi Minh City

    Sep 27, 2017

    Tens of thousands take part in charity and social activities in the country’s parishes, mostly Catholic students attending university or working in cities. St Paul Parish, Binh Tân District, has taken steps for migrants and poor children. During Saigon Diocese’s ‘Migrant Week’, students promoted the message of the encyclical Laudato si’. Some young people told their story.

  • Priests and nuns form legal forum in Kerala, India

    Sep 27, 2017

    Christian priests and nuns engaged in legal profession in Kerala have formed a forum to enhance their efforts to bring justice to the poor and downtrodden.

  • Catechist in Aleppo, where faith overwhelms fear and violence

    Sep 27, 2017

    Rania Salouji is a 40-year-old Christian woman. She is married to Grigor and they have two kids, 17 and 14. At the beginning of the war she thought about fleeing but chose to stay. She was anxious for months when her husband was held captive and she is still traumatised by the death of a boy killed by a rocket near the catechism centre. Each day she entrusts her children to Our Lady, reciting the Rosary. We must “live normally, as much as possible”.

  • Nukes won’t save us – let’s seek a better path

    Sep 27, 2017

    Nuclear weapons are a force for instability and any claims they promote peace are chasing illusions, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States told leading diplomats seeking a nuclear test ban treaty.

  • Pope acts in movie Beyond the Sun

    Sep 27, 2017

    Pope Francis’s screen debut in a narrative feature film got its first official showing on September 20 night at the Vatican, before the film’s Christmas release.

  • Rohingya refugees number 400,000 plus

    Sep 27, 2017

    As tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar and global criticism mounts over the civilian government’s silence on the crisis, the country’s top Catholic leader says that Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi “should have spoken out.”

  • Nuns march through Seoul against human trafficking

    Sep 27, 2017

    Religious women launch campaign to put an end to eight forms of modern slavery

  • Bishop Egan: Catholics must be holy before they can win converts

    Sep 26, 2017

    The bishop called for his diocese to shift from 'maintenance to mission'

  • Cardinal Burke: Church divisions show urgent need for clarity

    Sep 26, 2017

    Amid the ongoing debate surrounding “Amoris Laetitia,” dubia author Cardinal Raymond Burke said in a new interview that he’s wrongly depicted as the “enemy” of Pope Francis, but he stressed that current division in the Church demands an answer to requests for clarity.

  • Sixty-two scholars and Priests issue ‘correction’ of Pope Francis

    Sep 26, 2017

    Sixty-two scholars and priests have issued a “filial correction” of Pope Francis, saying that his words and actions risk leading Catholics into false doctrines.