Global Church News

Catholic Church in Hong Kong introduces major initiatives to combat child abuse

Aug 29, 2024

The Diocese of Hong Kong is taking a significant step towards enhancing child protection mechanisms with the establishment of the Diocesan Safeguarding Minors and Vulnerable Persons Office – St. Goretti’s Centre, set to be operational in 2025.
Global Leadership Program champions intercultural youth empowerment in Indonesia

Aug 29, 2024

Sanata Dharma University played host to the 14th installment of the Global Leadership Program (GLP), themed “Youth Empowerment in Intercultural Society: Towards a Rooted Global Citizenship” in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from August 12 to 18.
Powerful Typhoon slams into southern Japan

Aug 29, 2024

Typhoon Shanshan hit Japan with full force, injuring dozens as howling winds smashed windows and blew tiles off houses while torrential rains turned rivers into raging torrents.
Holy Land patriarchs call for rapid cease-fire

Aug 29, 2024

As war's one-year mark approaches, Jerusalem’s Patriarchs urge peace, the release of captives, and global support
Faith leaders address UN on autonomous weapons

Aug 29, 2024

This week at the United Nations in Geneva, faith leaders expressed concerns about lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Catholics in Southern Italian city protest abuse cover up

Aug 29, 2024

Catholics in the Southern Italian city of Enna, Sicily, protested the local church's role in covering up sexual abuse after a court recently ruled that the diocesan bishop sought to protect a priest accused of having abused several minors as a seminarian.
Dicastery for Evangelization holds plenary on Pontifical Urbaniana University

Aug 29, 2024

The Dicastery for Evangelization is holding a two-day Extraordinary Plenary Assembly to discuss the future mission of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, which forms seminarians and priests for missionary dioceses around the world.
Australian military to fly pope to remote PNG town

Aug 28, 2024

PNG's request for help received a ‘resounding yes’ under a defense pact struck between Canberra and Port Moresby
Why do Catholics say certain phrases three times during Mass?

Aug 28, 2024

These phrases are repeated at every Eucharist with expressions such as “through my fault,” “Lamb of God,” or “Holy, Holy, Holy.” The following explanation aims to help you better understand and appreciate these aspects of the holy Eucharist.
‘A shared love’: Church representatives reflect on migrant rescue operation

Aug 28, 2024

As the first migrant search-and-rescue mission jointly organized by the Italian Bishops’ Migrantes Foundation returns to port in Sicily, two representatives of the Foundation describe their experience assisting people risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea.