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Court asks Indian state to respect rights of minority institutions

A verdict by the Madras High Court in the state of Tamil Nadu could serve as a guide to resolve several cases across India where state officials have delayed staff appointments at Church – run educational institutions, Church officials say. Father Maria Charles, secretary of the Indian Catholic bishops’ Office for Education, called the court […]

Thai Catholic Church voices concern over Cambodia border conflict

“The Thai Catholic Church views the current military tension along the border with profound concern”, Archbishop Francis Xavier Vira Arpondarattana of Bangkok and President of the Thai Catholic Bishops’ Conference told the Italian Catholic news agency AgenSir in an interview published July 26. Tensions across the Thai and Cambodian border erupted on Thursday, July 24, […]

Chaldean Patriarch: “Save the historic Christian cemeteries of Najaf”

In an attempt to safeguard Iraq’s fragile Christian heritage, the Chaldean Patriarch of Bagh-dad has launched an urgent appeal to Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to stop what he calls ‘attempts to destroy historic Christian cemeteries’ in the province of Najaf. In their place, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako denounces in a reflection published on the […]

Nagasaki church replaces cathedral bell 80 years after it was destroyed in atomic blast

Catholics in Nagasaki, Japan, have replaced a bell in a cathedral bell tower there almost exactly 80 years to the day after it was destroyed by the atomic blast that leveled most of the city at the end of World War II. An international effort to fund the construction and installation of the bell at […]

Philippine cardinal links flood disaster to political corruption

Widespread corruption in government infrastructure pro-jects contributed to the severe flooding that paralyzed parts of Manila, especially the low-lying areas, according to Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. “We are told it’s the climate – yes, climate change is real, and it is devastating. But let us be […]

Pakistani families to challenge ‘fake blasphemy’ probe suspension

Families of victims of a “blas-phemy gang,” which allegedly entrapped hundreds of mostly young people in fake cases to extort money, have vowed to challenge a Pakistan court deci-sion suspending a probe into misuse of the controversial blasphemy law. The families and their lawyers say the decision by the Islamabad High Court in the national […]

Pope Leo XIV to move forward with Vatican reforms, says Cardinal

Pope Leo will announce reforms to the Roman Curia in the autumn, Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols has predicted, saying that one of the reasons the Pope was elected was that he knew the Church’s administration from the inside. And according to the Cardinal, discussions among cardinals at the time of the Pope’s election […]

Archbishop begs for forgiveness after priest charged with brutal murder of homeless man

Miroslaw M, aged 60, who is being held in custody pending trial, pleaded guilty to the brutal mur-der of the 68-year-old homeless man, identified as Anatol Cz, following an argument over the victim’s housing and care. Accor-ding to the Radom district prose-cutor’s office, the priest and the victim had previously signed a donation agreement transferring […]