A Hong Kong cardinal told CNA that changes to Hong Kong’s status in China could threaten the religious freedom of Catholics and other religious believers. The legislature of China on May 28 approved a resolution to impose new “security laws” on its formerly autonomous...
The Vatican has disciplined another charismatic religious leader, exiling the founder of an Italian monastic community over governance problems. Enzo Bianchi, a Catholic layman who founded the Bose Monastery in northern Italy, had enjoyed the blessing of three popes...
A record number of people left the Church in the German Archdiocese of Munich and Freising last year, a local statistical office said on May 26. The Munich statistical office told CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, on May 26 that 10,744 Catholics...
The Jesuit General Curia in Rome has announced that its former superior general, Father Adolfo Nicolás, died on May 20 in Tokyo, Japan. He was 84. He was a member of the Jesuit community of Loyola House in Kamishakujii and had been ill for several years. A statement...
Cardinal John Tong Hon, administrator of the Hong Kong, announced that the city will return to public Masses from June 1, at the same time China’s parliament is expected to pass a new national security law that already has pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong taking...
