At the very moment the white smoke appeared from the Sistine Chapel, some 900 sister leaders from around the world had just received communion. They had spent the last few days together at Ergife Palace Hotel, the site of the five-day general assembly for the...
Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, told the BBC that he was running out of words “to describe the misery and the tragedy affecting the people in Gaza. This week, the Integrated Food Security Phase...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released a new 10th anniversary preface to a major document on the Church’s response to pornography, offering fresh recommendations for parents, clergy, educators, and civil leaders on combatting porn’s influence in...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has condemned the terrorist attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir that killed 26 people and injured 17 others, expressing pain for families who lost their loved ones. Terrorists opened fire on tourists on April 22 in...
Three weeks after police assaulted two Catholic priests and tribal women in a village in eastern Odisha, Church leaders say the Hindu-leaning state government has not taken any action against the attackers. Father Joshi George, parish priest in Juba village of...