Global Church News

Filipino Bishops begin rosary campaign against violent drug war

Nov 07, 2017

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has called for a prayer campaign to address violence in an escalating conflict between police and drug traffickers.
Native American who reconciled his culture with Catholicism declared ‘servant of God’

Nov 06, 2017

Nicholas Black Elk was a renowned catechist who melded his Lakota culture with Christian life
Cardinal Gracias grateful to Pope for November prayer intention

Nov 06, 2017

The Holy Father who is visiting Myanmar and Bangladesh, 27 Nov. to 2 Dec., released a video message Friday evening on the prayer intention.
Assassin of Indian nun says he is happy she is now being beatified

Nov 06, 2017

Sister Rani Maria, stabbed to death 22 years ago, is about to be proclaimed a Blessed
Sixty Vincentians martyred during Spanish Civil War to be beatified

Nov 06, 2017

The November 11 Saturday 60 members of the Vincentian Order who were martyred during the Spanish Civil War will be beatified at a Mass in Madrid, a “celebration of hope, faith and forgiveness.”
San Antonio Archbishop prays for victims of Texas church shooting

Nov 06, 2017

After at least 26 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, the local Catholic
Murdered nun Rani Maria beatified

Nov 06, 2017

The nun, who was born in Pulluvazhy village in 1954, mostly worked in north India.
Registration, buses and prayers: Bangladesh prepares to welcome the pope

Nov 05, 2017

Pope Francis will be in Dhaka from 30 November to 2 December 2017. Parishes are registering pilgrims. The organisation is handled by a central committee, plus twenty local and eight diocesan committees. Catholics in the north are sorry that the visit does not include a stop in the northern dioceses.
The little-known celebration of Russian unity

Nov 05, 2017

The anniversary of the October Revolution has been replaced by the day marking the victory over the Poles in 1612. Patriarch Alexy gave it its present name. The symbol of the victory of 1612 is the icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which disappeared during the Bolshevik Revolution and found its way to the Vatican from where it was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church by will of John Paul II.
800 years of the Custody of the Holy Land: the 'seed' that sprouted from intuition of Saint Francis

Nov 05, 2017

The saint’s indication to "immerse oneself without discussion or dispute" in mission. The protection of sacred places, help to local communities and the needy. The Franciscans remained in Syria to be near to the suffering people despite the dangers. The dialogue between Christians and the "majority religions" of the Holy Land.