Global Church News

Filipinos are in love with the Virgin Mary, and the Baclaran shrine is proof

Jul 04, 2016

A long-venerated icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help turned 150 this year, and many Filipinos’ Marian devotion has never been stronger.
An overwhelming response to women's Catholic health care

Jul 04, 2016

In the year and a half since it opened, Bella Natural Women’s Care has served the needs of some 1,700 women in Denver.
Mgr Menamparampil: On being peacemakers in India

Jul 04, 2016

Ethnic insurgencies in the ‘seven sister states" of India’s north-east goes back a long time. In 1996 local Churches set up a Joint Peace Mission Team. The former archbishop of Guwahati describes what makes a good peacemaker.
For Bishop of Rajshahi, Muslims should stand up to barbarous act in Dhaka

Jul 04, 2016

Mgr Gervas Rozario, bishop of Rajshahi and president of the Bishops’ Commission for Justice and Peace, spoke to AsiaNews about last Friday’s massacre in Dhaka.
Dhaka attack aimed at government to destabilise the country

Jul 04, 2016

The deadly attack by the Islamic State group in the heart of the Bangladeshi capital is “part of a precise plan against the current government with the clear intent of destabilising the country and turn it into a terrorist stronghold like some areas of Pakistan,” a Bangladeshi source, anonymous for security reasons.
Michigan high school blends Jesuit tradition with special needs education

Jul 03, 2016

In Michigan a new kind of specialized education is being crafted from the backbone of Jesuit formation, which will cater to students who learn differently than those in a traditional setting by focusing on special needs education.
Islamist attack against Dhaka cafe frequented by foreigners leaves eight dead, scores wounded

Jul 02, 2016

Bangladeshi special forces stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery café 12 hours after it was seized by gunmen in an operation that brought Dhaka to a standstill.
This priest died in a Korean prison camp. Will the Catholic Church beatify him?

Jul 02, 2016

There's good news in Kansas: former army chaplain Father Emil J. Kapaun has taken a step closer to possible beatification and sainthood.
CBCP: We’re not enemies, but we’ll remain vigilant on new government

Jul 01, 2016

“Pursuing the same vision as Filipinos and as Catholics, we will be vigilant because vigilance is the great price for freedom.”
Founder of religious order dies during her jubilee Mass

Jul 01, 2016

Mother Rosemae Pender, 94, had a heart attack while marking 75 years since she professed first vows