Global Church News

Fr. Rafic: Coptic Christmas in the new cathedral an 'event' for Christians and Muslims

Jan 08, 2019

Sunday Tawadros II celebrated midnight mass in the presence of President al-Sisi and senior officials. The video message of greetings of Pope Francis re-broadcast by the Egyptian media. The desire to celebrate amid impressive security measures for fear of new attacks. In the new administrative capital, nearby church and mosque "sign of religious coexistence".
The new Ukrainian Church is born, and Orthodoxy is divided

Jan 08, 2019

The delivery ceremony of the Tomos of autocephaly sunday in Istanbul had a strongly "national" character, with Poroshenko sitting next to the altar
Catholic homes destroyed, land expropriated in Ho Chi Minh City

Jan 08, 2019

The authorities sent bulldozers and agents with batons and electric whips to L?c H?ng to seize land owned by the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris (MEP). Gathered in prayer, about a hundred families ask for justice. The displaced pledge to continue the fight.
Inauguration of Church funded by the Emir of Qatar

Jan 08, 2019

Qatari ambassador to Lebanon emphasises the importance of interreligious dialogue. But signs of intolerance also come from Lebanon: Muslim MP attacked online for participating in a New Year's Peace Mass. She defends the choice: "I'm not the first one, I will not be the last one".
Pope urges aid to poor, homeless on Epiphany

Jan 07, 2019

Organizers say that hundreds of thousands of people have participated in colorful Epiphany processions in more than 700 locations across predominantly Catholic Poland.
Renewing faith in Christ, in memory of the blessed martyrs

Jan 07, 2019

The nuns from of the Sisters of Charity remember and “are grateful to the missionaries who with their blood planted the seeds of faith in Christ in the heart of Laotians”. Christmas celebrations are held in Nasay, a village whose residents were once all animist and are now almost all Catholic.
Forty “missionaries” killed worldwide in 2018

Jan 07, 2019

The Vatican’s Fides news agency has brought out its annual year-end tally of “missionaries” and pastoral workers killed last year.
Sibling survivors of India’s anti-Christian violence opt for consecrated life

Jan 07, 2019

On December 27, Fr. Anand was ordained a priest of the Order of Friars Minor and his sister, Anjali, pronounced her final vows as a member of the Society of Saint Anne of Luzern. The two are survivors of India’s 2008 anti-Christian violence in Odisha state.
Maryknoll missionary serving Muslims in Bangladesh for 43 years

Jan 07, 2019

US-born Fr Robert Terence McCahill is 81 years old. He came to Bangladesh in 1975 after 11 years in the Philippines. He chose to live poor among the poor. Muslims call him "brother Bob".
Hong Kong bishop Michael Yeung Ming-Cheung has died

Jan 04, 2019

Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung of Hong Kong died on January 3 at the age of 73.