WASHINGTON (CNS) — A recent surge of Haitian migrants near the U.S. border with Mexico... Read more
As she sold dried fish from her stand at the Kimironko market in Kigali, Rwanda, Therese Mukabunane narrated how hundreds of desperate residents in her hometown of Gikongoro died at the hands of priests and nuns during the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists. Read more
An English cardinal led tributes to a Catholic member of Parliament who was knifed to death while meeting local people in his constituency. Sir David Amess, a member of the governing Conservative Party and one of the most prominent Catholic politicians in the U.K. Parliament, was stabbed repeatedly by a man who sprinted into his offices at noon Oct. 15. Read more
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Two Philippine dioceses announced they would close cemeteries on All Saints’... Read more
Evacuated in August as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, the head of the now-interrupted Catholic mission said this is a time of “advent,” waiting for God to reveal how the church can be present in the country again. Read more
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — The president of the Polish bishops’ conference said that in meetings... Read more
Thousands of pilgrims have flocked to the tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old Italian teenager whose use of technology to spread devotion to the Eucharist prompted Pope Francis to hail him as a role model for young people today. Read more
Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican Oct. 9 with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Rome to speak at a meeting of legislators from around the world in preparation for the U.N. climate summit. Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) — Churches need to make it their mission to get... Read more
An independent report on sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church estimates 330,000 children have been abused since the 1950s. Most of the victims were pre-adolescent boys of all social backgrounds, and more than a third of the assaults were committed by laypeople. Read more
A network of offshore trusts and subsidiaries established by priests and businessmen close to the Legionaries of Christ moved as much as $295 million around four continents, according to a trove of leaked documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and pub… Read more
BRISBANE, Australia (CNS) — Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge has signaled that the Fifth Plenary Council... Read more
PARIS | More than 3,000 pedophiles have operated within the Catholic Church in France since the 1950s, an official investigation found.Speaking two days before the publication of a report into clerical sex abuse in the French church, Jean-Marc Sauvé, the head of the investigating commission,… Read more
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Mexico in marches promoted as “pro-woman and... Read more
