Global Church News

Card Gracias: Indian Church to increase aid for COVID-19 victims

May 10, 2021

The Archbishop of Bombay takes stock of the mobilisation with Caritas India. About a thousand Catholic hospitals are “at the forefront”. The Church is “coordinating financial aid to buy more ventilators” and “our schools will operate as isolation and quarantine centres; our institutions as vaccination centres”.
Ukraine soldiers killed as tensions rise in eastern areas

May 10, 2021

Ukraine says at least two soldiers were killed and another wounded in recent days in clashes between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists. The military claims the latest reported clashes rose the death toll to at least 36 Ukrainian soldiers killed in the east this year.
China Vatican Agreement betrayed: Ordination of mentally and morally unstable to take place tomorrow

May 10, 2021

Msgr. Giuseppe Guo Jincai, formerly excommunicated, is to ordain three new priests tomorrow. No consultation with the two bishops of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi. The rush to ordain priests before the Winter Olympics.
Join Cardinal Bo in praying for China

May 10, 2021

As the regime in Beijing becomes ever more repressive, never has the need to pray for that great nation been greater.
Macau honors Our Lady of Fatima with postal stamps

May 10, 2021

Authorities in Macau have decided to publish postal stamps of Our Lady of Fatima to honor the long-held tradition of devotion to Mary by Catholics in the Chinese-ruled territory.
Rosario Livatino beatified in Sicily, honored as ‘martyr of justice and faith’

May 10, 2021

Blessed Rosario Livatino, a Catholic judge brutally killed by the mafia in 1990, was beatified Sunday in the Cathedral of Agrigento, Sicily.
Cardinal Hollerich applauds launch of Conference on Future of Europe

May 10, 2021

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxemburg and president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), applauds the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe on Europe Day.
Repealing blasphemy laws impossible, Pakistani Christians told

May 10, 2021

Catholic priests and nuns at a recent debate on minority rights urged Christians in Pakistan to avoid demanding the repeal of blasphemy laws.
French Catholics to join Day of Solidarity with Eastern Christians

May 09, 2021

Catholics in France are taking up the call to show solidarity with Eastern-rite Catholics as a way of strengthening bonds between Western and Eastern Christians.
Caritas Europa appeals for full humanitarian access to Eastern Ukraine

May 09, 2021

A Caritas Europa delegation concludes a visit to eastern Ukraine on Saturday, and expresses concern that the 7-year standoff between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in the region could blow into a full-scale conflict.