Syria – There has been a fresh claim from within the country that the missing Jesuit priest, Fr Paolo Dall’Oglio is still alive. According to BosNewsLife, Christians who are working locally to find the priest who went missing on July 29, insist that he is alive, though no further details were offered by way of…

Seven Catholic social justice organisations have called for an end to the “devastating” austerity Budgets

Health officials say they are considering the case of a woman who went from Northern Ireland to England for an abortion because she was told her baby had no chance of survival

HIQA makes 34 recommendations on improving the care of clinically deteriorating pregnant women.

United States – A perfume manufacturer in the state of California has released a fragrance named in honour of Pope Francis. Excelsis Fine Fragrances, which was originally founded in 2005 to recreate the cologne worn by Pope Pius IX and has since offered colognes such as Benedictus has now released Francis, billing it as fragrance…

Catholic Guides of Ireland award members who have set themselves above the standard challenges of the Guiding programme

Pope begins meetings with hand-picked cardinal advisers on reform of curia

Lough Derg’s ‘Living with Suicide Day’ attracted 120 participants

Laos – Officials in the province of Savannakhet have ordered converts to Christianity to renounce their faith or face eviction from their villages. Amid concern at an upswing in conversions from the local animist faith, officials decreed that Christians will be removed from the district. Christians have rejected the order, pointing out that Laos is…

The annual novena to Matt Talbot is underway in the Diocese of Killaloe