Global Church News

For Cardinal D'Rozario, the visit is a

Oct 06, 2017

The pontiff is expected from 30 November to 2 December. This will be the first visit after John Paul II's visit in 1986. It is a state visit as well as a pastoral visit for Christians and Muslims that will stimulate dialogue between religious communities. An interview with the archbishop of Dhaka follows.
Princess Anne attends Cardinal Cormac’s memorial Mass

Oct 06, 2017

Cardinal Nichols recalled his predecessor's warm encounters with the Royal family – including a sing-a-long with the Queen Mother
How to protect children from online abuse

Oct 06, 2017

A pioneering international congress on the risks and challenges to children in the digital world and how to protect them from online sexual abuse was hosted by the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University, from Oct 3 to 6.
New seminary looks to solve priest shortage in Timor-Leste

Oct 06, 2017

Timor-Leste Asia’s most Catholic nation, Timor-Leste, has a new seminary to tap into the growing number of young people who want to study to become priests after finishing junior high school.
Fatima visionary predicted ‘final battle’ would be over marriage, family

Oct 06, 2017

Sr Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at Fatima, died in 2005. But before her death, she predicted that the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family.
Share the journey, embrace migrants, refugees

Oct 06, 2017

Christ calls believers to welcome migrants and refugees “with arms wide open, ready to give a sincere, affectionate, enveloping embrace,” Pope Francis said, launching the Share the Journey campaign of Catholic charities around the world.
Lutherans, Catholics urged to keep finding ways to pray together

Oct 06, 2017

A Catholic bishop and a Lutheran bishop told members of both their denominations gathered to mark the Reformation’s 500th anniversary that they need to keep finding ways to respect one another, pray together and cross “these bridges between us.”
Churches in Vietnam, Japan to jointly care for migrants

Oct 05, 2017

Some 200,000 Vietnamese migrant workers live in Japan and many of them suffer economic exploitation
Clergy stand by condemnation of killings in Mindanao diocese

Oct 05, 2017

Philippine churchmen in Dipolog deny governor's claim the diocese has retracted statement hitting out at drug trade murders
Pope: The task of Christians is to be missionaries of hope

Oct 05, 2017

This is demonstrated by the "many Christians who did not abandon their people when the time of persecution came. They stayed there, where even tomorrow was uncertain, where nothing could be done, they were hoping for God. " In March 2018 a pre-synodal meeting with young Catholics, young people from different Christian denominations and other religions and non-believers.