When an Israeli air raid destroyed Walaa Sobeh’s house and much of her neighbourhood, the Palestinian Muslim sought shelter in Gaza’s oldest church. At the Church of Saint Porphyrius, she found not just sanctuary, but a feeling of belonging to “one family” — united by...
Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on October 22 afternoon to discuss “the latest developments in Israel and Gaza,” according to a statement from the White House. The Holy See Press Office said earlier the phone call lasted about 20 minutes and...
A recent official census of religious identity in Hungary offered bad news for those concerned with the future of Christianity in central Europe. For the first time, a majority of Hungarians (56.6%) failed to declare membership of a faith tradition, with 16.5%...
Pope Francis reaffirmed the impossibility of women becoming priests, or even modern Church deacons, in an interview for a book released October 24 in Italy. The question of whether some women in the early Church were “deaconesses” or another kind of collaborator with...
The Church in India has celebrated the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees in the national capital with more than 300 Burmese Catholic refugees and People who have fled the ethnic violence in Manipur. The World Day of Migrants and Refugees is celebrated on the...
