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Mexican parish to remember victims of violence with 130,000 candles

A Mexican parish will remember the victims of violence in the country with 130,000 candles to be lit the night of July 30, as part of the Day of Prayer for Peace called by the Mexican Bi-shops’ Conference. In a video message, Father Alberto Medel, pastor of Our Father Parish in the Diocese of Xochimilco, […]

“We are not a colony, …but a free, independent state.” Zelenskyy says on Ukrainian Statehood Day

Ukrainians will fight for their statehood to the last and will not stop until they liberate the last meter of Ukrainian land, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address for Ukrainian Statehood Day July 28. The day marks the 988 baptism of “Kyivan Rus,” the origin of Christianity in the region, but this is […]

Sydney McLaughlin gives ‘all the glory to God’ after smashing another world record in hurdles

Olympic track and field gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin, who broke her own world record in the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships on July 23 in Oregon, is using her time in the limelight to share her Christian faith. After smashing her previous record set a month ago, she gave all credit to God in […]

Six years after grisly murder, France remembers Father Jacques Hamel

Six years after Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by knife-wielding terrorists while celebrating Mass at his parish church in northern France, locals gathered to commemorate his life and to pray. “We enter into prayer where Jacques fell, victim of the madness of men,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen said at the suburban Rouen church of […]

“I am sorry”: Canadian Indigenous react to papal apology

The words “I am sorry” are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Muskwa, or Bear Park, Powwow Grounds. “It’s just very powerful,” Ward told The Catholic Register, Toronto-based newspaper, after Pope Francis finished delivering his historic apology on Indigenous land […]

Pope Francis preaches on sharing faith with love before 50,000 at largest stadium in Canada

Preaching at a Mass celebrated in Canada’s largest stadium, Pope Francis reflected on the elderly, who he said should be honoured, and who serve as an example to the Church on how to pass on faith in a loving way. “In addition to being children of a history that needs to be preserved, we are […]

Who are the women appointed to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops?

Pope Francis named three women as members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops on July 13. The appointments, which the pope previewed in an interview last week, mark the first time that women have served as members of the Vatican department responsible for the world’s episcopal appointments. Who are the pioneering trio? María Lía Zervino […]

Hong Kong’s Coming Religious Crackdown

Freedom of speech, assembly and the press are gone in Hong Kong, and there’s good reason to fear religious liberty will be the next target. That was the warning from Monsignor Javier Herrera-Corona, the Vatican’s unofficial envoy in Hong Kong, as he prepared to leave the city this spring after six years. Reuters reports that […]

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Pope: Red Cross’ humanitarian work shows that fraternity is possible

New Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity