Global Church News

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
Christian politicians look to Suu Kyi-led peace conference

Jul 13, 2016

Christian politicians in Myanmar's ethnic minority regions say they have high hopes in an upcoming peace conference but remain wary about the military's attitude towards the process needed to end decades of civil war.
In Venezuela, ‘The people are afraid’

Jul 13, 2016

Venezuela was once the country of dreams—but those dreams have turned into nightmares. Such is the verdict of one of the country’s bishops.