Global Church News

Bishop to celebrate Mass for victims of Easter attack in Lahore

Apr 03, 2016

Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton is to celebrate Mass for the victims of the Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore, Pakistan.
Msgr. Nereus Rodrigues: For 93 years, I have served others in love and mercy

Apr 03, 2016

"I am an unworthy servant, I have only done my duty” says Msgr. Nereus Rodrigues, Rector, Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, Bandra (West) Mumbai, on the threshold of his 93 years.
Filippino faithful celebrate "visit" of St. Anthony of Padua

Apr 03, 2016

20 years since the last visit, the relics of St. Anthony of Padua are returning to the Philippines.
Funeral marks Mother Angelica's life as a 'faithful bride' to Jesus

Apr 02, 2016

Mother Angelica’s life must be viewed in reference to Jesus, the homilist at her funeral Mass said on Friday.
Mother Angelica: A female powerhouse in a supposedly sexist Church

Apr 02, 2016

It was September 1987, and Pope John Paul II had just arrived in Los Angeles after traveling around the United States. The Pope was greeted in the City of Angels by a closed-door meeting with a group of progressive bishops who had a bone to pick with several Church traditions.
Convert to Christianity murdered in Bangladesh; ISIS claims responsibility

Apr 01, 2016

Hossain Ali, a retired Bangladeshi man who converted from Islam to Christianity in the 1990s, was brutally murdered in Kurigram on March 22.
Chinese Catholics seek return of confiscated compound

Apr 01, 2016

About 300 Chinese Catholics in the Xinyang Diocese in central Henan province marched to the Huangchuan county government office on March 21 demanding the return of a church property and protesting the alleged beating of a nun.
Long-awaited papal text to be released on April 8

Apr 01, 2016

Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation based on the Synod on the Family will be released on Friday April 8, it was announced today.
Don Bosco relic to get permanent home in Macau

Apr 01, 2016

One of seven containers containing relics of St. John Bosco is to remain in Macau permanently.
Survivors of Lahore attack: A sudden flash of light and then flames everywhere

Apr 01, 2016

For five seconds after the bomb explosion in the park Gulshan-e-Iqbal, "everyone was on the ground and everything caught fire.