Amid a loneliness epidemic, recent research shows faith and family are “antidotes to isolation.” A report published by Institute for Family Studies on September 25 found that churchgoing Catholic couples are happier than other couples. Among the report’s most notable findings is that despite cultural challenges to faith and a decline in marriage, people who…

For Christians in Iraq, remaining in their historic homeland increasingly depends not only on security but also on whether younger generations can find meaningful work and build stable lives, according to Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil. In an interview with ACI MENA, the Arabic-language sister service of EWTN News, Warda said education, professional…

Judges at the International Criminal Court convicted rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani last week of crimes against humanity for abusing and torturing prisoners at a detention facility in the Central African Republic. Said, wearing blue jeans and a sweater, remained expressionless for most of the hour-long hearing in The Hague as presiding Judge Miatta…

A senior Vatican figure has said there needs to be global cooperation on artificial intelligence and expressed concern that some states want to “go it alone” with the technology. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State, was speaking on September 16 after an event in the Italian parliament called ‘Faith and Reason in…

Cameroon is experiencing a surge in frequently deadly violence against women, with eight women reported killed over a ten-day span last month and no fewer than 72 women slain in the country between January 1 and April 4 this year in the central African country of 31 million. The outspoken Bishop John Berinyuy Tatah, auxiliary…

Pakistani security forces ended a standoff with militants holed up inside a police compound in the northwestern part of the country on Saturday. The standoff began Friday after a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into the complex in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the country’s border with Afghanistan. Gunmen followed the vehicle,…

Baltimore Archbishop William Lori this week praised an assembly of women religious major superiors for their witness of “evangelical poverty,” with the prelate noting the outsized influence that women religious have had on American society over the past 250 years. “You and those who came before you have taught our children, tended to the sick,…

Pope Leo XIV called for international solidarity with Somalia, where ongoing violence and extreme weather are making an already severe humanitarian crisis even worse. “With great concern,” the pontiff said Sunday, “I am following the humanitarian crisis unfolding in certain areas of Somalia.” “[A]cts of violence and extreme weather events are exacerbating the already precarious…