Global Church News

US Bishops call for legal protection of doctors who won't perform abortions

Jul 12, 2016

According to the letter, the Conscience Protection Act would make sure people providing health care would be able to do so “without being forced by the government to help destroy innocent unborn children.”
Filipino Bishops to hold fast to the truth even in the wilderness

Jul 12, 2016

“We will teach, even it seems like a voice in a hostile wilderness, till the day we die, that right is right and wrong is wrong and we will not withdraw from mission of the Lord,” said CBCP president at the start of the bishops’ plenary assembly.
South Sudan Church leaders condemn recent violence and pray for dead

Jul 12, 2016

Violent clashes between forces loyal to the president and those loyal to the vice president have spread across the city of Juba in recent days
Bishop Donald Bolen named Archbishop of Regina

Jul 12, 2016

Pope Francis on Monday named Bishop Donald Bolen, currently Bishop of Saskatoon, as Archbishop of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Bishop James Pazhayattil passes away

Jul 12, 2016

The former bishop of Irinjalakuda diocese was 82.
Iraqi Bishop: The diaconate "essential to keeping the Church in the Middle East alive "

Jul 12, 2016

The diaconate in Iraq is a "noble and dynamic mission" because it focuses on "human dignity" and, at the same time, is an effective means to "unite Christians, especially those in need", says Msgr. Alnaufali Habib Jajou Archbishop of Basra, in southern Iraq.
Will new 'civil rights' silence churches? In Iowa, the fear is real

Jul 12, 2016

An Iowa church fears the state civil rights commission could penalize it for preaching and following its views on homosexuality and transgender issues – including penalties for single-sex bathrooms.
Kerala parish rejoices as swimmer qualifies for Rio Olympics

Jul 12, 2016

Prakash has been training at the Basavanagudi Swimming Complex in Bengaluru since 2011.
Cardinal Nichols discourages priests from celebrating Mass ad orientem

Jul 12, 2016

The Archbishop of Westminster has told clergy Mass is 'not the time for priests to exercise personal preference or taste'
The Vatican just digitized this 1,600-year-old epic

Jul 12, 2016

Virgil wrote his classic poem, “The Aeneid,” more than 2,000 years ago. Thanks to the Vatican, you can now read one of the the world’s oldest versions of the ancient Latin text online.