Global Church News

World meeting of Russian Catholics hailed as ‘last hurrah’ for movement

Mar 06, 2017

Organiser says the Eastern Church, started by the 'Newman of Russia', is in danger of being lost to history
Ketapang, diocese holds training seminar for young people on the responsible use of social media

Mar 06, 2017

Increasingly important to network and raise awareness of social media, often a battleground between opposing "factions."
Catholic MP with ashes on her forehead causes stir in the Commons

Mar 06, 2017

Carol Monaghan said that most people did not know what the symbol meant
What's the point of fasting, anyway?

Mar 04, 2017

God commanded it, Jesus practiced it, Church Fathers have preached the importance of it – fasting is a powerful and fundamental part of the Christian
Al Azhar under the influence of Daesh Islamism

Mar 03, 2017

While the West and the rest of humanity evolve with all their religious, cultural, social, economic institutions, the Muslim world and its institutions are sinking further into archaism.
Pope Francis, the first Pope to visit an Anglican church in Rome

Mar 03, 2017

Pope Francis on Sunday, Feb 26, became the first Catholic pontiff to visit an Anglican parish in Rome, using the historic occasion to press for greater closeness after centuries of mistrust, prejudices and hostility between the two churches.
Famine declared in South Sudan

Mar 03, 2017

The food situation in South Sudan has deteriorated considerably since the start of the civil war in December 2013.
Indonesian religious leaders vow to combat modern slavery

Mar 03, 2017

Global Slavery Index ranks Indonesia 10th on number of people by country list
Jailed for exposing ‘torture’ of Bahrain’s political prisoners

Mar 03, 2017

Nabil Rajab, director of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, is a grey-haired 53-year old. His eyes are always smiling, even though he has spent a long time in the Jaw prison for denouncing the torture of detainees there on Twitter in 2015.
Vatican, al-Azhar ask world to help stop religious extremism, terrorism

Mar 03, 2017

The Vatican and al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s leading institution of higher learning, called for the world's governments, organisations and leade