Global Church News

Diocese hires graffiti artist for the Year of Mercy

Dec 04, 2015

The Diocese of Brentwood has commissioned a piece of graffiti art for the Year of Mercy.
Spain's Catholics protest blasphemous art exhibit, but city council won't act

Dec 04, 2015

Despite protests from thousands of Spaniards opposed to the desecration of the Eucharist, the Pamplona city council has failed to pass a proposal to remove a sacrilegious art exhibit from a publicly funded exhibition hall.
US Senate votes to defund Planned Parenthood, but veto is expected

Dec 04, 2015

The United States Senate voted Thursday to pass a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood, though the White House has said President Obama will veto the legislation.
Cardinal Nichols: ‘Effective action’ against ISIS is necessary

Dec 03, 2015

Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said that “effective action is necessary” against ISIS, ahead of a crucial vote on whether the UK should launch airstrikes against Syria.
Bangladesh’s only Catholic weekly marks 75th anniversary

Dec 03, 2015

The Catholic Church in Bangladesh marked a milestone with the 75th anniversary of the country’s only Catholic weekly ‘Pratibeshi’.
Ten pastors in Bangladesh receive death threats

Dec 03, 2015

Death threats were issued to ten church leaders in northern Bangladesh last week, insisting that those who preach Christianity "must leave this world
Japanese churches discuss minority issues

Dec 03, 2015

Some 200 people from more than 20 Japanese churches and minority right networks — as well as 20 overseas partner churches and organizations — gathered for a third international conference on minority issues and mission held 18-21 November at the Korean YMCA in Tokyo, Japan.
Seek mercy, not violence – Denver's archbishop on Planned Parenthood shooting

Dec 03, 2015

In the wake of last week's attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver has rejected all violence in relation to the issue of abortion.
San Bernardino bishop offers prayers in wake of mass shooting

Dec 03, 2015

Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of the Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif. requested prayers and offered his own after at least one gunman left more than a dozen dead at a social services facility in the city.
Treating Islam's clerics like their Christian equivalents will save lives

Dec 02, 2015

There is an unexpected upside to the mayhem and carnage across the world, visited on the unsuspecting innocents of countries where Muslims are not a majority of the population — Europe and beyond. It’s something the Catholic Church has had to learn, too.