Pro-Life Campaign (PLC) has been moved their National Conference in Dublin to the RDS.

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

Kenya – A Muslim cleric has been shot dead in an attack apparently linked to the September massacre by the al Shabab group in the Westgate mall in Nairobi. Sheikh Ibrahim Omar was targeted as he drove with four others through the city of Mombasa on October 3. Only one person survived the attack. Police…

Day for Life message called on the Government to give priority to services that seek to prevent suicide.

India – A Catholic bishop has vowed to appeal the sentences handed down to seven Christians linked to a killing which sparked the deadly Orissa pogrom of 2008. On October 3, a court in the state sentenced those convicted to life, despite a lack of evidence against them and a claim from a Maoist group…

The Irish Bishops’ Conference has announced a special collection on Sunday, November 17 for Trócaire’s work in Syria.

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.

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…