Global Church News

Bless me Father for I have NO sin!

Mar 14, 2016

“Forgive me Father for I have No sin!”, the boy said to Fr.John Corapi inside the confessional.
Terra Sancta Museum opens in Jerusalem, showing the Holy Land’s Christian roots

Mar 13, 2016

On 17 March, the first section of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem will open to the public inside the Monastery of the Flagellation.
In Egypt, Christians can suffer under strict laws – and a pattern of lawlessness

Mar 12, 2016

Four Coptic Christian teenagers face up to five years in prison after an Egyptian court found them guilty of insulting Islam, continuing a trend of blasphemy accusations in a country whose Christian minority lacks many basic social and legal protections.
For South Africa's bishops, the Year of Mercy is a time to heal racial division

Mar 12, 2016

Repentance, spiritual healing, and hard conversations are necessary to respond to racism and racial divisions, the bishops of South Africa said on Monday.
Pakistan’s Christians pray for Asia Bibi: New threats to her life

Mar 11, 2016

The Christian faithful have responded en mass to the call made yesterday by the Catholic Church, for prayers for Asia Bibi - a Christian woman in jail on charges of blasphemy - after renewed threats to her safety.
China: The one child law is gone, but not the fines for breaking it

Mar 11, 2016

Even after the Communist Party declared an end to the one-child policy in October, families who broke the rules before the change still need to pay a hefty fine to register their children for hukou.
Catholics and Buddhists want Good Friday as a statutory holiday

Mar 11, 2016

Many Sri Lankan Catholics want the Sri Lankan government to make Good Friday a statutory holiday so that anyone who wants can share in the activities organised by the Church to mark the Passion of Christ.
Eucharistic procession draws nearly 2,000 at Planned Parenthood

Mar 11, 2016

It was a powerful, solemn scene at Planned Parenthood in Stapleton, Colorado on Saturday morning as Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila led some 1,800 Catholics in a Eucharistic procession seven times around the abortion clinic.
Massive new report documents IS genocide of Christians in Iraq, Syria

Mar 11, 2016

One week before the State Department must announce if Islamic State atrocities against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria are genocide, a 278-page report has been released documenting that Christians there do face genocide.
Pune: Thugs burn Bible and sacred texts in front of Our Lady of Fatima grotto

Mar 11, 2016

Unknown thugs broke into the St Sebastian Church at dawn yesterday in Daund, a town some 80 km from Pune (Maharashtra), and set fire to the Bible, sacred books and religious sheet music in front of the Grotto of Our Lady Fatima.