Global Church News

Catholic Church in Sharjah hosts Iftar at Ramadan

Jul 14, 2016

In Sharjah, the St Michael’s Catholic Church hosted iftar, the meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan, for some 500 labourers and other guests for the first time in its decades-long history.
London Mayor breaks Ramadan fast with faith leaders

Jul 14, 2016

Faith leaders came together with London’s mayor Sadiq Khan to break fast for the Muslim festival of Ramadan.
World Youth Day is much more than ‘Catholic Woodstock’

Jul 13, 2016

World Youth Day, a massive youth festival staged somewhere in the world every two or three years, has been styled as the "Catholic Woodstock," but that fails to do justice to its impact -- on vocations, on youth ministry, and in changed lives.
Pilgrims to take sharpened social media strategies to World Youth Day

Jul 13, 2016

Low-cost video messaging carried across increasingly video-friendly social media platforms will define this year's World Youth Day experience, said several organizational leaders finalizing their media strategies.
Bishop of Tashkent: God’s mercy also touches the hearts of children

Jul 13, 2016

Mgr Jerzy Maculewicz is the apostolic administrator of Uzbekistan. Local Catholics came together for three days to celebrate the feast day of the Sacred Heart with activities exploring the theme of the Jubilee Year.
Archbishop of Juba issues wrenching appeal for help to save lives

Jul 13, 2016

Fighting erupted four days ago in Juba between followers of President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar, the former rebel leader who became vice president under a deal to end a two-year civil war
Vicar of Aleppo: Too much violence, we have to suspend activities, but our churches will stay open

Jul 13, 2016

This is no longer a war, but horrific "bloodshed" in the context of an escalation of violence "that is really frightening".
Are these quite possibly the world's happiest nuns?

Jul 13, 2016

The Eucharistic Communicators of the Heavenly Father are a community of nuns from Colombia who have a great passion for music and an intense desire to announce God through the gifts he has given them.
Crowds gather in churches, parks, plazas to remember Dallas officers

Jul 13, 2016

In the week since five Dallas area police officers were gunned down, thousands have gathered in churches, parks, plazas, parking lots and a symphony hall to remember the fallen officers, to cry for hope and pray for peace and unity in communities across the country.
Kansas seminarian believed drowned after saving life of woman who fell in river

Jul 13, 2016

Brian Bergkamp, aged 24, has been missing since Saturday