Global Church News

Like the Fatima visionaries, we should meditate on hell

Jul 22, 2016

Reflecting on the horrors of hell can help us to avoid ending up there
Why pray after tragedy? This Sandy Hook mother has an answer

Jul 22, 2016

Some people have difficulty seeing the point of prayer in times of trouble. But for Magnificat magazine columnist Jennifer Hubbard, prayer got her thr
WYD is event full of novelty

Jul 22, 2016

Monsignor Miguel Delgado Galindo, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Speaks on Celebration of World Youth Day in Krakow
Young Sri Lankan Catholics and Anglicans seeking unity

Jul 22, 2016

An Anglican and Roman Catholic Joint Youth Conference is held on “so that they may be one” (Jn, 17-22). Young Catholic and Anglican leaders meet to le
Death knell for Britain’s historic Heythrop College?

Jul 21, 2016

A proposed merger between Heythrop College, operated by the British Jesuits, and Roehampton University will not go ahead, possibly sounding the death knell for the 400 year old college.
Rome: City of beauty, history and…#Pokemon?

Jul 21, 2016

Pokemon Go, the location-based augmented reality game based on the popular animated cartoon, has swept across the United States and has made it here to Italy.
Jesuit-run online theology course promotes lay participation

Jul 21, 2016

India’s first online course for laypeople to integrate theology in their daily lives has awarded certificates to five students who successfully completed the programme.
Avoid the expression ‘the reform of the reform’

Jul 21, 2016

The Vatican has denied media reports based on recent statements made by Cardinal Robert Sarah in London, claiming that there will be changes in the ce
Nuns in Manila take in Pakistani refugees

Jul 21, 2016

A religious congregation in Manila has taken in a family of five Catholic refugees who escaped persecution in Pakistan last month.
The religious leaders of Turkey condemn terror and violence

Jul 21, 2016

“Terror and violence, from wherever and whoever they come, can never be defended and regarded as legitimate. Killing one person is like killing all humanity and is absolutely not accepted by believers. May God protect our country and all humanity.”