Global Church News

Pope Francis sells out Belgium stadium for Sept. 29 beatification Mass in just 90 minutes

Aug 23, 2024

Tickets for Pope Francis’ Mass in King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels at the end of September sold out in record time on August 19, Monday.
Synod on Synodality: Bishops launch regional workshops ahead of October meeting in Rome

Aug 23, 2024

Around the world, bishops together with the Catholic faithful of their dioceses in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa are gearing up for the second session of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality to take place Oct.2-27 in Vatican City.
Pakistan top court amends religious freedom ruling

Aug 23, 2024

A judge in Pakistan on Aug. 22 said the country's Supreme Court would amend a ruling that recognized some religious freedoms for the persecuted Ahmadiyya minority, after weeks of widespread protests from far-right Islamist groups.
Latin American religious denounce migrants' plight

Aug 23, 2024

Leaders criticize the US-Panama deportation deal as punitive and inadequate in addressing migration's root causes
Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine: Solidarity offers hope amid suffering

Aug 22, 2024

The Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, discusses the war in Ukraine since Russia's invasion and the many expressions of solidarity that offer hope, as he participates in a roundtable at the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples in the Italian city of Rimini.
Papua New Guinea town elated at Pope Francis’ visit

Aug 22, 2024

Catholics and civil society members in a town in Papua New Guinea (PNG) that awaits Pope Francis’ apostolic visit in September have expressed immense joy in the opportunity to see the supreme pontiff in person, says a missionary priest.
Indonesian Catholics to meet pope in Timor-Leste, PNG

Aug 22, 2024

Hundreds of Indonesian Catholics who would otherwise miss out on an audience with Pope Francis in their country will join him in neighboring Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste thanks to support from the government.
Why Taiwan is a hope and not a problem

Aug 22, 2024

A new book presented today at the Rimini Meeting recounts the reality of the island from the faces of its people and the missionary experience of the St. Charles Borromoeo Fraternity. Extracts from the preface, written by our editorial director: “In Taiwan we experience many things that seem to us like pages from the Gospel.”
Sainthood cause advances for Eileen O’Connor, lay woman and mystic

Aug 22, 2024

An Australian archbishop sent Servant of God Eileen O’Connor’s cause for sainthood to Rome on Monday in an important step on the road to leading to the possible declaration of Australia’s second saint.
Ukraine's religious leaders for ban on Russian Orthodox Church

Aug 22, 2024

The largest organization of religious leaders in Ukraine is backing a proposal by that nation's president -- approved by Ukrainian lawmakers Aug. 20 -- to ban the Russian Orthodox Church and its affiliates, which have openly supported Russia's decade-long war on Ukraine.