European integration and unity has brought Europe’s peoples peace, security and prosperity, but these successes need to protected, according to a European bishops’ commission. Speaking on behalf of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, Munich’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx expressed relief that a bailout package had prevented Greece from abandoning the Euro…

The Church in Nepal has urged that the preamble to the country’s new constitution should include the word ‘secular’ in order to ensure religious freedom. Responding to Hindu nationalist calls that the constitution should establish a ‘Hindu Nation’, the Apostolic Vicariate has also asked Nepal’s major parties that Christianity be listed, along with Hinduism, Buddhism…

De La Salle Brothers from different parts of Ireland came together in Castletown, Portlaoise recently, after a six day retreat given by Fr Charles Cross, CP. They were, in effect, saying goodbye to their Irish Province, which was established in 1947, and joining with brothers from Great Britain and Malta in a new combined ministry…