The Villaregia Missionary Community has established a new presence in Ghinnir, in Ethiopia’s East Bale, seeking to reach communities where the Catholic Church has a limited presence. According to a report on September 29 by Agenzia Fides, the Villaregia Missionary Community has been visiting communities in East Bale where they have been raising awareness about…
Pope Leo XIV sent a condolence message to Holy Family Parish in Gaza after an Israeli missile strike killed five people, including Christian mother Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud and her daughter, Mary Hafez Michel Najjar, Fr Gabriel Romanelli said in an October 4 video update. Reading the pope’s note, Fr Romanelli said Pope Leo…
Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is inviting church leaders to Rome next week to understand how Francis’s document has been implemented. Vatican officials last week stressed that Francis’s 2016 text Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) …
Many of the far-right’s views on Christian teaching and the place and role of Christian faith in public life are not an “authentic expression of Christianity,” Pope Leo XIV said last week. The pontiff was answering a question from Ludwig Ring-Eifel of KNA, a major German Catholic newspaper, during the in-flight press conference en route…
Scotland’s Catholic bishops are responding to a renewed political effort to decriminalise abortion in their country, condemning a Green Party push to treat abortion as “health care” and calling on legislators to invest in measures that actually protect and support mothers. Last week, the Green Party called on the current Scottish government to act on…
Pope blasts assisted suicide as ‘false compassion’ at French shrine known for miraculous cures. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday blasted the legalisation of medically assisted death as immoral “false compassion,” as he doubled down on Catholic teaching about life during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures of the…
Millions of Christians in Ethiopia gathered to celebrate Meskel, a religious holiday that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman empress Helena in the 4th century, even as fighting continued in the troubled northern region of Tigray. Meskel holds added significance in Ethiopia, a largely agrarian society, as it marks, along with…
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…