World

By CNS and staff reporters WITH more than 150 people reported dead in the last week and thousands detained in...

For someone who was raised Catholic, Sidney Poitier left a mark on the Catholic world. Much of it has to...

IN situations of extreme poverty, war or civil tensions, 22 Catholic church workers were murdered in 2021, according to Fides,...

“WHEN you look at an icon, it is a door to heaven.” With this sentence, Muna Bandi Khader, who took...

SUPER Typhoon Rai has claimed more than 375 lives since making landfall in the Visayas and Mindanao region, Philippine authorities...

ST Jerome Church in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, became a makeshift shelter for storm survivors over the December 11-12 weekend and...

A TORNADO gutted churches, tore down a water tower, flattened the courthouse, crushed the fire and police stations, reduced houses...

By Exaudi.org MARY is the “Star of the New Evangelisation,” Pope Francis said in his video message to those celebrating...

THERE is a renewed Church call for the Australian Government to pressure Indonesia to allow a United Nations human rights...

POPE Francis has expressed his sorrow for the death and destruction caused by the eruption of the Semeru volcano in...

By CNS and Mark Bowling IN March this year the photos and video of a 45-year-old nun on her knees...

CARITAS Australia has reached millions of people living in poverty in Australia and overseas over the past 55 years.  Now,...

by CNS and staff writers A KENYAN bishop has urged hope as his diocese continued to mourn the death of...

THE newly installed Catholic bishop of Hong Kong has promised action to heal divisions within the Catholic community and wider...

By CNS and staff reporters POPE Francis has greeted refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, saying the world needs...

NIGERIAN priest Fr Bako Francis Awesuh remembers watching late-night television in mid-May when he heard gunshots outside. Speaking to Aid...

CNS and staff reporters WHEN the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments today for the biggest abortion case in...

AN Ethiopian bishop has called for an immediate end to aerial bombardment in Tigray, the Ethiopian region where a deadly...

TWO dozen Dominican friars and sisters ministering on the Solomon Islands are safe despite extensive damage and fires across the...

POPE Francis has told young people that, with Jesus, people can find the courage to swim against the current, to...

ABOUT 600 leaders from Catholic communities across Australia have signed letters urging the Australian Government to step up protecting people...

THE world passes and the Word remains, Pope Francis reminded the faithful in today’s Angelus commentary in St. Peter’s Square....

BISHOPS from the Amazon region are calling on world leaders at the U.N. Climate Change Conference to commit to protect...

HUNDREDS of campaigners with the Church’s international aid agency in Britain, CAFOD, have joined in marches for climate justice in...

POPE Francis on Sunday decried the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia  and remembered victims from a fuel explosion in Sierra...