Global Church News

Church of the Holy Sepulchre to re-open after taxing dispute

Feb 28, 2018

Christian leaders are re-opening the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the city backtracked on proposals seen as targeting Christianity in the region.
Indonesian Diocese fetes 150 years of its first Church

Feb 28, 2018

Manado Diocese hails yearlong festivities an inter-religious affair
Christians fast to save young man wounded during an interrogation

Feb 28, 2018

Two protests are held at the same time in Lahore and Karachi. Sajid Masih is in a Lahore hospital. The Christian man jumped from the window of the Punjab police headquarters to escape torture by agents.
Eucharistic miracle? Hosts found intact in church destroyed by earthquake

Feb 28, 2018

Almost a year and a half after an August 2016 earthquake in the central area of the Italy, a tabernacle with 40 intact and consecrated hosts was found amid the rubble in Our Lady of the Assumption church in the town of Arquata.
Religious nationalism threatens India: Bishops

Feb 28, 2018

Promotion of nationalism based on religion threatens India with annihilation, the nation’s Catholic bishops warned at the conclusion of a biennial meeting.
Religious freedom takes another hit in China

Feb 28, 2018

Christians in China's central Henan province have been banned from displaying religious couplets over Chinese New Year.
More than 10,000 Tamil and Sinhalese together for the feast of St Anthony on Katchatheevu

Feb 28, 2018

Representing the two communities, Mgr Justin Bernard Gnanapragasam and Mgr Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe concelebrated the solemn Mass. The Sri Lankan Navy organised the feast, including meals, shelters for pilgrims and temporary piers for their boats.
UK Bishop: Have we allowed youth to become bored with the Mass?

Feb 28, 2018

In a recent pastoral letter, a British Bishop has encouraged Catholics to make the “awesome reality” of the Eucharist a central focus of their life and prayer during Lent.
Q-and-A on faith leaders’ letter on the beauty of ‘God-given sexual identity’

Feb 28, 2018

In December, Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, chairman of the US Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defence of Marriage and three other Catholic bishops joined several other religious leaders in signing an open letter titled Created Male and Female about the inherent beauty and dignity of God-given sexual identity.
Rome Colosseum bathed in red in honour of modern martyrs

Feb 28, 2018

Rome’s Colosseum, long a symbol of the persecution of early Christians, was bathed in red light late Feb 24 as a reminder of and a prayer for the thousands of Christians being persecuted for their faith today.