Six nuns from the Congrega-tion of the Sisters of Saint Anne were kidnapped Jan. 19 while traveling on a bus in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious. Other passengers on the bus also were taken in the abduction, the...
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who also serves as an adjunct secretary of the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, says the Catholic Church has lost “good priests just because they chose marriage.” Speaking to the Times of Malta, the archbishop...
On a snowy Saturday in January 20, German bishops’ conference chairman Bishop Georg Bätzing joined protesters at a demonstration near his residence in Limburg, in the central state of Hesse. Bishop Georg Bätzing attends a Jan. 20, 2024, demonstration against racism,...
A Catholic priest was sent to judicial custody on January 7 on an alleged disappearance of 26 girls from a hostel managed by the Church in Bhopal district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Carmelite of Mary Immaculate Father Anil Mathew was reportedly...
Sister Anne Mathew spends most of her time in eucharistic adoration in a home for elderly nuns in a southern Indian town. “Prayer works for me and is my strength,” the 81-year-old former nurse, who had worked for years in Austria and Switzerland, told Global Sisters...
