With the threat of legal assisted suicide looming larger every day in the UK, the president of the Scottish bishops’ conference has appealed to Catholics to contact their MPs to try and stop the bill. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is scheduled for a vote in the House of Commons on September…
The far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has drawn sharp criticism from Germany for his recent comments on the mass killing of Palestinians. “Ben-Gvir’s inhumane statements are diametrically opposed to Jewish values and damage Israel’s reputation,” said Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, in response to an enquiry from the Catholic…
Catholics in the Philippines observed a day of mourning on August 19, one day after a shooting at a Catholic school left two students dead. A ninth-grade student shot and killed a classmate in the grade above him on the morning of August 18 at the junior high school campus of Ateneo de Zamboanga University…
The Church in the Central African Republic has joined the nation in mourning the deaths of more than 100 people who died following the collapse of an artisanal gold mine on Tuesday, August 18. In a statement August 20, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bouar, Msgr Miroslaw Gucwa said it was with “immense…
Indigenous student-leaders and young people rallied in Bangladesh this week to protest what they say is the government’s failure to protect indigenous peoples and religious minorities. The human chain protest outside the National Museum in the capital, Dhaka, on August 18, followed an incident in which a mob attacked a Christian village after the body…
A leading British bishop has said he is “deeply alarmed” by the Israeli military’s decision to declare the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh a closed military zone after a series of settler attacks on the village. Bishop James Curry, auxiliary of Westminster and Lead Bishop for the Holy Land for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of…
A federal high court in Nigeria has restrained authorities in the country’s Kano state and the Islamic religious police, known as Hisbah, from arresting a 22-year-old woman because she converted from Islam to Christianity and rejected a forced marriage. In its May 26 ruling, the court described the actions taken against the woman, identified by…
A joint letter from UN human rights experts warning Nigerian officials of the heightened risk of violence against Christian women and girls in the country has been made public after the government failed to respond within 60 days. The June 1 letter cited attacks against Christian women and girls in northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt…
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling for “compassion, simplicity, and access to care” to be reflected in the final rule that enforces work requirements for people who receive Medicaid benefits. The USCCB — along with the Catholic Health Association and Catholic Charities USA — sent a joint letter to the Centres for Medicare &…
Representatives of Venezuela’s 2015 National Assembly — recognised by the Trump administration as the last democratically elected authority in the country — along with representatives of interim President Delcy Rodríguez’s government announced the first agreements reached during their negotiations last week. The process is being overseen by the United States government, with the primary objectives…