Poland's church is seeking the beatification of a young lay missionary, Helena Kmiec, who was stabbed to death in a bungled robbery shortly after starting work with Catholic nuns at a children's home in Bolivia in 2017.
The April 1 attack on a Spiritan seminary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the most recent one in a series of incidents involving Catholic Church targets, amid the worst violence crisis in Haiti in several years.
A group of armed criminals invaded the Petit
A Vatican investigation of the Peruvian Catholic organization Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, launched in 2023 after more than two decades of spiritual and sexual abuse allegations, has resulted in the resignation of one of its most important members, Archbishop José Antonio Eguren of
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has announced he will travel to Israel and Palestine amid a war now in its seventh month.
The cardinal will undertake a pastoral visit April 12-18 in his role as chairman of the Catholic Near East
Pope Francis expressed his condolences to the people of Taiwan after a powerful earthquake struck the island nation's eastern shore.
In a message sent to the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference of Taiwan, April 4, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said the
Catholic aid workers in Gaza are determined to continue their mission after a deadly strike killed colleagues from a fellow organization.
Seven staff members of World Central Kitchen died April 1 when their three-vehicle convoy was hit in an Israeli air attack. The
Over 12,000 people, both adults and adolescents, were baptized in France on Easter -- a record number in the country that experiences what many church leaders have called an accelerated "de-Christianization."
Requests for adult baptisms have been on the rise in France for
Pope Francis renewed his calls for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip after seven of the aid workers of World Central Kitchen, a humanitarian organization that delivers food in war-torn countries, were killed in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza Strip
The head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has offered his gratitude following Pope Francis' plea for an "all for all" prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine.
On Easter March 31, Pope Francis issued the "Urbi et Orbi" ("To the city and
Catholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited public exhibitions of faith -- such as processions and reenactments of the passion of Christ -- as it continued exercising control over religious activities
One year after the Ciudad Juárez migrant detention center fire, a caravan of approximately 2,000 migrants called "Viacrucis migrante" set out from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula at the start of Holy Week.
The reference to the crucifixion of Christ -- reenactments