Union flags were erected outside a Catholic church in east Belfast near the scene of increased violence in recent weeks. The flags were raised outside St Matthew’s Church on the Newtownards Road over the weekend by a group of men in a cherry picker. Houses in the nearly nationalist Short Strand were attacked with paint…

Vatican to issue guidelines to bishops’ conferences about the phenomenon

Female deacons should be part of the discussion

A number of countries have expressed a keen interest in the work of Towards Healing

The Christians of Bosnia-Herzegovina have a duty to forgive the cruelty of the Yugoslav Civil War, but not to forget it, according to Pope Francis. Speaking to a gathering of priests, religious, and seminarians at Sarajevo’s cathedral as part of a one-day visit to the Bosnian capital, the Pontiff laid aside his prepared text after…

Stephen Curry spoke of his decision to take his faith more seriously

As many as 135,000 people, according to organisers, took part in a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Describing the victims of the Tiananmen massacre as "our martyrs" who must not be forgotten, Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, said, “Some Catholics say that…

Plans to resettle 520 migrants inadequate – claim

French Catholics have called on the Church to support a campaign to stop Western companies from buying oil from Islamic State (IS). Arguing that oil purchases from Islamic State are effectively funding slaughter, Joseph Thouvenel, vice president of the French Confederation of Christian Workers and head of a new association, New Martyrs, says that 84…

An electrical fault left them suspended as they were making their way to the ground floor on Friday evening