The Garda Síochána, Ireland's National Police, are searching for armed raiders who broke into a church rectory in early March, threatened two priests with weapons before spraying the clerics with bleach and making off with the Sunday Mass offerings.
Three Egyptian Coptic monks of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of South Africa were brutally murdered March 12 in their monastery in Cullinan, a small town in Gauteng province, about 18 miles east of the capital, Pretoria.
According to a March 13 statement from
Rev. Hood, a former hospital chaplain at a trauma center in Texas, was accustomed to attending at "incredibly visceral, intense deaths (from) motorcycle accidents and plane crashes."
Having accompanied other death row inmates to their execution -- while strenuously advocating for the end
The Catholic Church has strenuously denied helping a convicted sex offender to gain asylum in the United Kingdom where he allegedly went on to throw a chemical substance over a woman and her two children.
Abdul Ezedi, a 35-year-old Afghan, is suspected of
The brutal aggression and sexual assault of a nun on the outskirts of Medellín, the capital of Colombia's mountainous Antioquia province, has spurred outrage in the Colombian church, which is now demanding a full investigation into the attack and lamented the frequent
A young man volunteering with a group of Capuchin Franciscan friars in the nation's capital has been killed in an apparent attempted robbery.
Ryan Realbuto, a 23-year-old member of the Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps, was fatally shot just after 10 p.m. Jan. 18
A weekday Mass at a California parish was interrupted as police pursued an alleged armed suspect who had fled into the church.
Stunned parishioners at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Placentia raised their hands above their heads as several law enforcement officers entered
When they learned their 23-year-old son Michael Echaniz had been murdered in March 2022, John and Sharon Echaniz began a journey through the stages of grief, and (although they admit there is work to be done) they offered their son's killer forgiveness.
Federal prosecutors said Jan. 12 they will seek the death penalty against the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022.
The convicted gunman, Payton Gendron, 20, was previously sentenced to life
Father Stephen Gutgsell was found "suffering from injuries sustained during an assault" Dec. 10 at the rectory of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, where he served as pastoral administrator.
According to a Dec. 10 press release from the