Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako says Israel’s attempted “regime change” strategy in Iran could “only worsen the situation” in the Middle East, where a US-brokered ceasefire has paused hostilities between Israel and Iran. The patriarch of the Chaldean Church in Iraq...
A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group claimed responsibility on June 24 for a weekend suicide attack against a church in Damascus, while the Syrian government insisted they were part of the Islamic State group. The June 22 attack killed 25 people and wounded...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, as “the only bishops from a country to have suffered atomic bombings in war,” is urging the international community to abolish nuclear weapons once and for all in 2025. “As we mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War...
More than a thousand faithful gathered at the Myeongdong Cathedral for the annual “Day of Prayer for the Reconciliation and Unity of the Korean People,” an observance held by the Korean Church on the Sunday nearest June 25—the anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean...
Filipino Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David has denounced online gambling as the cause of “a new mental health crisis” in the Philippines. David, the 66-year-old bishop of the Diocese of Kalookan, attributed the problem to recycled hardware from now-outlawed Chinese gaming...
