Journalist accused of inciting destruction of abbey in Spain The Vox political party in Spain has filed a complaint against a journalist who encouraged blowing up the basilica and abbey located on the grounds of the Valley of the Fallen memorial complex northwest of Madrid. The complex is the site of the largest cross in…
The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, which has been in power for 15 years, expelled 18 Missionaries of Charity from the Central American country on July 6. According to the newspaper El Confidencial, the nuns were taken by the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration and the police from the cities of Managua and…
Scott Richert, publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, said July 6 the Indiana-based Catholic publishing company would fill the void left behind by the closure of the domestic operations of Catholic News Service in January 2023 with OSV News. He made the announcement at the Catholic Media Conference in Portland and described the new venture as a…
Vatican rep warned Catholic missionaries of Hong Kong crackdown A Vatican representative in Hong Kong warned Catholic missionaries there to be prepared for a tougher future as China tightened its control over the former British colony, said a Reuters news report based on interviews. Reporting on the Reuters story, ucanews.com said Archbishop Javier Herrera-Corona, the…
Pope Francis has dismissed rampant rumours that his resignation is imminent in a recent Reuters interview, saying that he’s on course to visit Canada this month and that he hopes to be able to visit both Moscow and Kyiv after that. Speaking to the Reuters reporter in the Vatican Philip Pullella, Pope Francis also denied…
The Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior has ordered the closure of 101 nongovernmental organisations, including the Missionaries of Charity, the congregation founded by St Teresa of Calcutta that is dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor. The order to shut down the 101 NGOs was requested by Sandinista legislator Filiberto Rodríguez in a June…
Bishop Jude Ayodeji Arogundade of Ondo, Nigeria, is resolute in the wake of tragedy. St Francis Xavier Church in Ondo, where at least 40 worshippers were slain by terrorists June 5 during Pentecost Mass, will reopen by autumn. “We’ll resume full activities as it has always been,” Bishop Arogundade told Catholic News Service June 28…
Calls for Church solidarity following Texas truck deaths The archbishop of San Antonio offered prayers for dozens of people found dead as well as more than a dozen survivors discovered June 27 in sweltering conditions in a semitruck. Authorities said June 28 the death toll had risen to at least 53. Originally, first responders pulled…
Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision June 24, attacks on Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centres have been reported in West Virginia, Washington, Virginia, Louisiana, Colorado, California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Indiana. Below are the latest recorded attacks since the decision. St Patrick Catholic Church in Philadelphia was defaced with pro-abortion…
Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have warned that disrupted food and fuel supplies during the war in Ukraine are undermining the quest for peace and stability. They said the Central African Republic was not becoming economically self-sufficient and, “like the other countries, it is undergoing convulsions from the Ukrainian crisis. Marked by our…