Global Church News

Lenten charity in violence-hit Kashmir

Mar 28, 2017

Several Catholics in India's Jammu and Kashmir state have decided to use money saved by their Lenten sacrifices to help people affected by recent violence in the Muslim-majority region.
Lenten sacrifices made by India's impoverished tribal people

Mar 28, 2017

A prayerful silence falls over tribal villages as Catholics of Gumla Diocese in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand add new austerities to their already tough lives, during Lent.
Leonardo masterpiece back on display following restoration

Mar 28, 2017

Da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi has returned to Florence's Uffizi Gallery
Catholics join missile-defense system protest in South Korea

Mar 28, 2017

Catholic lay people and priests joined a 5,000-strong rally March 18 against the deployment of a U.S. Army anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea.
Aden, tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand an end to the war

Mar 28, 2017

Promoted by the Houthis, who occupy the capital and large areas of the north of the country. Former President Saleh also present. He called crowd to resistance. One demonstrator: "In the streets against the Saudi aggression." A criminal court close to Shiite rebels issues death sentence for Hadi in absentia.
Cardinal Alencherry: The beatification of Sister Rani Maria is a blessing for the Church in India

Mar 27, 2017

The nun was killed in 1995 with 54 stab wounds. Her assassin is a radical Hindu fomented by village leaders, who wanted to stop her missionary activity in favor of the tribal poor. Today he repented because of the love of the Franciscan family, who forgave and accepted him. Sister Rani is a "martyr".
How an American Bishop became a Korean martyr

Mar 27, 2017

On Sunday Pope Francis said Lent is a key time to open ourselves to the light of Christ and let go of all the “false lights” that lead us away from him, taking us instead down a path of darkness marked by our own selfishness.
Gorsuch praised for record of building unity on religious freedom

Mar 27, 2017

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch received a strong voice of support Thursday from a lawyer at a major religious liberty firm, who said that he shows a record of consensus building and protecting religious freedom for all.
Meet the monks who decided to go green years before Laudato Si

Mar 26, 2017

Years before Pope Francis’ ecology encyclical was published, a Trappist monastery in Virginia went back to its spiritual roots by embracing environmental stewardship.
Indonesian Catholics call for action on church graft

Mar 25, 2017

Deeds, not repeated rhetoric, is the only way to stamp out 'original sin' of corruption, discussion told