More than two months after 5-year-old Loan Peña went missing in the northeastern Argentina town of Nueve de Julio, the church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him.
Loan's case is one of many concerns of church groups in Argentina
Despite strong criticism from European bishops and pro-life groups, members of the European Parliament adopted a report that defines access to abortion as a human right and claims that doctors or hospitals that conscientiously object to performing abortions put "women's lives in
The Cowessess First Nation will put a name to each of the hundreds of bodies found at the unmarked graves on the former Marieval Indian Residential School, vows Chief Cadmus Delorme.
"We will put a headstone and a grave to each of them,"
Cardinal José Advíncula was installed as the new archbishop of Manila, the country's largest diocese, in a ceremony at the Philippine capital's historic cathedral June 24.
The new archbishop shared his pastoral vision for his new diocese, reported ucanews.com.
"I have nothing new to
The Archdiocese of Berlin announced that it was temporarily suspending the work of its expert commission established to follow up on a legal report about sexual abuse in the archdiocese since 1946.
The archdiocese said June 22 that the commission is recommending that
During a trip to Mexico, the Vatican secretary of state called on Mexicans to overcome divisions and the violence afflicting the country -- something he said he prayed for at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin also said he
A day that started with heavy hearts visiting homes damaged in May violence between Hamas and Israel ended in a celebration of faith, love and family June 16 as Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, conducted a flurry of religious ceremonies
Caritas, the church's charitable aid agency, is tackling unemployment in Ghana, especially for young women.
The Korean branch of Caritas has donated more than $54,000 to the agency in Ghana, a country faced with 12% youth unemployment and more than 50% underemployment, both
The world-famous Regensburg Domspatzen cathedral choir high school will open to female students in 2022 and will have a girls' choir. The status of the Domspatzen as the cathedral choir and as a pure boys' choir will remain unaffected by the change,
A delegation of Indigenous people from Canada will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican before the end of the year, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said.
The delegation will include representatives of First Nations, Métis and Inuit national organizations, the bishops
Ahead of a transatlantic summit, the heads of the European Union bishops' commission and the U.S. bishops' conference called on government leaders to work together for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
When political leaders meet in Brussels June 15 for the