Global Church News

Pope Francis calls for release of kidnapped priest

Apr 11, 2016

Pope Francis on Sunday issued an appeal for the release of kidnapped Salesian priest, Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, and all persons being held captive in conflict regions.
Bernie Sanders, 'a big fan' of Pope Francis, to attend Vatican conference

Apr 11, 2016

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has announced that he will attend a Vatican conference on social justice and the economy just before the New York primary election on April 19.
'You are not forgotten,' Cardinal Dolan tells Iraq's Christians and Yazidis

Apr 11, 2016

On his second full day in Iraq, Cardinal Timothy Dolan traveled three hours to Dohuk, the city where the majority of those who fled Mosul, including the members of the minority Yazidi population, escaped to when ISIS overran the city.
Integration requires conversion: Reflections on Amoris laetitia

Apr 11, 2016

Reflecting on Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on love in the family, two professors at the John Paul II Institute have emphasized the close ties between integration and conversion, as well as the importance of the Church's established teaching.
Indian Church offers help to the victims of the Puttingal temple tragedy in Paravur

Apr 11, 2016

A blaze sparked by exploding fireworks killed scores of people at a Hindu temple in the Indian state of Kerala.
Police attack Catholic church in Quang Binh, three parishioners injured

Apr 11, 2016

Three Catholics were injured during in a clash with security forces in Houng Phuong, a village in Quang Binh province (central Vietnam), Radio Free Asia reported.
Hundreds of young people from the Holy Land to join Pope Francis at World Youth Day in Krakow

Apr 11, 2016

At least 700 young people from the parishes of the Holy Land will travel to Krakow in late July for the 31st World Youth Day (WYD), centred on the theme of mercy.
Cardinal Dolan to Iraqi seminarians: You will convert the world

Apr 10, 2016

After spending his first full day in Erbil, Iraq, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a special message to men studying in Iraq’s only remaining seminary for diocesan priests.
Sweden can't send Christian convert back to Iran

Apr 10, 2016

Religious liberty advocates applauded a European court’s ruling in favor of asylum for an individual fleeing life-threatening anti-conversion laws in Iran, on the grounds that his security must be taken into account.
Cardinal Schonborn’s intervention at presentation of Amoris Laetitia

Apr 10, 2016

In this climate of welcome, the discourse on the Christian vision of marriage and the family becomes an invitation, an encouragement, to the joy of love in which we can believe and which excludes no-one, truly and sincerely no-one. ‘