Global Church News

Parishioners hold last service after 11-year vigil at church marked for closure

May 30, 2016

For more than 11 years about 100 die-hard parishioners of St Frances X Cabrini Church kept their beloved parish open by maintaining a round-the-clock vigil in peaceful protest against the Archdiocese of Boston’s decision to close it.
Faisalabad: hundreds of Christians protest police brutality against their pastor

May 30, 2016

Hundreds of Christians continue to protest against police brutality in Faisalabad, following an incident in which police burst into a church in the ci
These 61 cloistered nuns visited a prison

May 29, 2016

A group of 61 cloistered nuns from six monasteries in Santiago, Chile made an historic visit to the local Women's Prison Center to spend time with the inmates and attend Mass with them.
Iraqi refugee children make First Communion in Erbil camp

May 29, 2016

On Friday, the first of three rounds of displaced Iraqi children made their First Communion in a refugee camp in Erbil, providing a silver lining to an otherwise bleak situation.
Loris Francesco Capovilla, Pope’s aide at Second Vatican Council, dies at 100

May 27, 2016

Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, who as personal secretary to Pope John XXIII helped prepare the Roman Catholic hierarchy for the opening of the Second Vatican Council, died on Thursday in Bergamo, Italy.
Evangelize China for the good of society, demanding an end to persecution

May 27, 2016

On May 24, several thousand faithful from Shanghai and the province took part in the pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Sheshan, on the day when the whole Church celebrates the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China.
How Catholic leaders are responding to the Queen's prison reform speech

May 27, 2016

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales are ready to support the government’s proposed prison reforms outlined in Queen Elizabeth II’s speech to Parliament.
Archbishop of Kirkuk: Against violence and extremism, a "Wide awake and Merciful" Church

May 27, 2016

The Iraqi Church needs "to stay awake". Like the disciples "tended to sleep" while Jesus "passed through difficult times", so now the priests "are likely to be devolved from reality" and this can be "dangerous."
Our Lady of Sheshan "helps Chinese Catholics “see hope in the dark"

May 27, 2016

Archbishop Savio Hon, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples of the Holy See, prayed with Hong Kong Catholics on 24 May, the day of Prayer for the Church in China and feast day of Mary Help to Christian.
Deportation could be a death sentence, bishops warn as raids increase

May 27, 2016

Renewed immigration raids against women and children fail to recognize the severity of situations faced by migrants, who leave Central America to escape death, the U.S. bishops said.