Global Church News

Be healers in a hurting world, Catholic Bishops say after shootings

Jul 11, 2016

Amid tensions following two high profile police shootings of African-Americans and the subsequent killing of police in Dallas, Catholic bishops have called on Christians to be a force for healing and compassion in response to hatred and inhumanity.
As more die, Patriarch Sako calls on Muslims and Christians to unite against terrorism

Jul 11, 2016

The Chaldean Patriarchate held a memorial service yesterday to remember the victims of last Sunday’s Karrada massacre, in Baghdad.
Church mourns "Pakistan’s Mother Teresa"

Jul 11, 2016

Abdul Sattar Edhi, one of Pakistan’s best-known philanthropists, died on July 8, Friday night at age 88. He set up a network of homes that welcome thousands of abandoned people, poor, elderly, sick, rejected children, that operate free medical clinics, dispensaries, ambulances. His example of charity will not be forgotten "because his good work is immortal."
Why Catholic marriage isn’t the same anymore

Jul 11, 2016

One of the most pressing issues at last year’s synod on the family was the demand that re-married couples be admitted to the sacraments. It is an issu
Prison inmates in Argentina paint statue of Virgin Mary

Jul 10, 2016

A local bishop in Argentina blessed a statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, which had been recently painted by inmates at Batán prison.
Cardinal Tagle expects 'explosion of mercy' at evangelization meet

Jul 09, 2016

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila expects an "explosion of mercy" when the third Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE) opens next week.
Fatima visionary predicted 'final battle' would be over marriage, family

Jul 09, 2016

Sister 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.
Liturgy of the cloth: How the early Church incorporated the Shroud and Sudarium in the Mass

Jul 09, 2016

New research suggests that the burial cloths of Jesus have been central to the Roman liturgy for more than a millennium, and possibly from the earliest days of the Church.
Standing up for religious minorities in Pakistan

Jul 09, 2016

It's been a few weeks since Pakistani actor Hamza Ali Abbasi stood up for the persecuted Ahmadi community on his Ishq-e-Ramazan TV show causing the ire of religious groups.
Almost 4,000 Canadian youth going to Krakow for WYD 2016

Jul 08, 2016

Young pilgrims from all over the world are expected in Krakow, Poland, July 25-31, 2016, to participate in the 31st World Youth Day (WYD).Close to 3,750 young Canadian pilgrims are registered to attend this international gathering that has as its theme “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” (Mt 5.7).