The pioneer bishop of Nigeria’s Diocese of Katsina said the young diocese is building its future around the vision of becoming a “creative minority,” seeking to transform society through education, faith formation, interreligious dialogue, and witness rather than being discouraged by its small Catholic population. Speaking to ACI Africa, the sister service of EWTN News in Africa, at the…
Pope Leo XIV appealed for peace in Ukraine on Sunday, August 9, noting “painful reports” of innocent people killed and injured in both Ukraine and Russia. “Tragic incidents continue,” Pope Leo said, “indeed, they are multiplying, resulting in ever-increasing civilian casualties, including children.” The latest reports say Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and civilian-populated areas…
A Catholic community in India’s West Bengal state is facing down intense intimidation, including demands that Claretian missionaries ministering to the faithful in Nazat village abandon their work and instruct their people to return to their ancestral religions. The incidents follow a string of violent attacks on Christians and churches in the eastern Indian state…
A Catholic parish in New York has suffered what the Diocese of Brooklyn says is the fourth incident of vandalism in two years after a man destroyed a statue of the Blessed Mother in an early-morning attack. The destructive episode at St Rita Roman Catholic Church in the neighbourhood of Long Island City in Queens…
Catholic activists are accusing Mexico’s Supreme Court of judicial activism when it comes to expanding access to abortion in the Latin American nation. Over the past few months, the Supreme Court has handed down a series of major rulings aimed at ensuring broad access to abortion services for pregnant women in Mexico. Pro-life advocates in…
A potential visit by Pope Leo XIV to Ukraine could make a significant contribution to international efforts to end the war and achieve a lasting peace, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See said. “We are absolutely sure that his possible visit would be a great input into the process of reaching peace there,” Ambassador Andrii…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on July 29 that debate around the introduction of assisted suicide should be put on hold until palliative and social care programs in the country are properly funded. “I take the view that that debate – and I don’t say that there shouldn’t be a debate at some point…
The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta offered emergency resources to civil authorities July 31 as more than 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, straining local infrastructure. In a statement published July 30, the diocese said it was deeply concerned “over the severity of events and the particular vulnerability of so…
A burial controversy involving a Dalit man in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state has brought the plight of the country’s Dalit population into sharp focus, with the local Catholic bishop involving civil authorities to resolve the dispute. Fr Devasagayaraj Zackarias, national secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward…
A sedevacantist group of monks in Scotland hosted an illicit consecration of a “bishop” on July 25 in spite of repeated warnings that doing so would constitute a schismatic act and a break from the Catholic Church. The Transalpine Redemptorists, or the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, livestreamed the counterfeit ceremony from their monastery…