Latin America sees significant drop in Catholic baptisms

Is secularization gradually overtaking Latin America? Either way, the Catholic Church, which remains very strong in this part of the world, is showing signs of decline. This is borne out by figures from a recently published study conducted by the Episcopal Conference...

Number of bishops, priests decline, according to Vatican statistics

The number of Catholic priests and bishops worldwide have decreased while the overall number of Catholics have increased, according to the latest Church’s Book of Statistics. Every year Fides News Agency puts together a Church statistics ahead of World Mission Sunday,...

Nigerian Church reeling from relentless kidnappings

Brother Godwin Eze, one of three Benedictine monks kidnapped by an armed gang on the night of 17 October from the Eruku Monastery in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, has been killed by his captors. The other two abducted postulants, Anthony Eze and Peter Olarewaj,...

Synod, October 25: Assembly approves message: listen to everyone

The Synod of Bishops has issued a “Letter to the People of God,” describing the work of the October meeting and asking all the faithful to “concretely participate” in the synod process that will continue through the next year and conclude with another plenary assembly...