A woman holds up a cross as people pray along the US-Mexico border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, while taking part in a Mass in support of migrants who died trying to cross illegally into the US. The border Mass was sponsored by dioceses of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez.…

Rhina Guidos The responsibilities entrusted to him are great: caring for about 50 shrines, more than two dozen parishes, various schools and other services provided by more than 250 Franciscan friars stationed at some of the most embattled places in the Middle East. But Franciscan Father Francesco Patton seems almost serene about the mission and…

A Baptist church in the US state of Mississippi has become the focal point for goodwill across the world after it was the scene of an arson attack on November 1. Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville was gutted by a fire which took responding firefighters some hours to completely control. Investigators subsequently found evidence…

Last week, for a mere 60 hours – fleeting when set against the last 1,500 years  – the tomb of the crucified Jesus lay fully open for the first time within the sanctified confines of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.   With the power to move Christians everywhere, more locally the site’s…