Global Church News
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“Be oases of mercy” young people of Taize
Jan 08, 2016
Pope Francis has sent a message of encouragement to some 30,000 young people gathered in the Spanish city of Valencia for the 38th European Meeting of
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Pakistani Christian mother on death row for blasphemy forgives Muslim persecutors
Jan 07, 2016
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, has told her family who visited her in prison that she has forgiven those who
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Memorial Mass held for priest who died in China
Jan 07, 2016
More than 200 Hong Kong Catholics attended a memorial Mass for an "underground" priest in China who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in early November.
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Philippine diocese opens sainthood process for Italian Jesuit
Jan 07, 2016
The southern Philippine Diocese of Dipolog has launched the first step toward the beatification and canonization of an Italian Jesuit missionary murdered in Mindanao in the 1600s.
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Christians wary of peace in ethnic areas of Myanmar
Jan 07, 2016
Christian politicians in ethnic areas of Myanmar are concerned that sporadic fighting there will undermine the peace process in the country where insurgents have waged war for decades.
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In 2016 British bishops should embrace unpopularity and speak out against the secular consensus
Jan 07, 2016
David Cameron famously said that there is such a thing as society, it just isn’t the same thing as the state.
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After France’s year of terror, is this is just the beginning?
Jan 07, 2016
Readers of this magazine will be familiar with the figure of the retired Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, who served the diocese of Malines-Brussels for five years until very recently.
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Religious freedom group condemns Saudi Arabia's execution of Shi'a cleric
Jan 07, 2016
The U.S. chief religious freedom watchdog condemned Saudi Arabia’s Jan. 2 execution of a Shi’a Muslim cleric as a violation of religious freedom, and called for global respect for human rights.
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Little Sisters to Supreme Court: Don't make us pick between faith and the poor
Jan 07, 2016
Religious sisters should not be forced to choose between caring for the poor and obeying their conscience, the Little Sisters of the Poor told the Supreme Court in a recent legal brief, adding that this is what the government is demanding of them through the HHS mandate.
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South Sudan bishop condemns attack on nuns
Jan 06, 2016
An attack on religious sisters at a teacher training college in South Sudan has shaken and saddened the Church, a Church leader said, while urging people of faith to demand the implementation of the latest peace accord to end the civil war.
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Sunday Reflection
Setting the world on fire: Jesus’ mission and ours
Jesus’ way of establishing God’s reign on earth was not the way of violence. He emphatically rejected the politics of violent revolution adopted by the Zealots.
