“The purpose of the Jubilee 2025 is threefold: to celebrate Jesus, to celebrate the Church, and to celebrate our faith,” the President of the CCBI said.
In a jam-packed hospital ward, 43-year-old Sushma Devi was lying on an old bed, murmuring a prayer while trying to ignore the pain from a wound to her head.
Hospitals and medical facilities in China’s Xinjiang region were allegedly forced to strictly implement government family-planning policies by aborting babies born “in excess of family planning limits.”
Catholic church leaders in the Philippines appealed to the faithful to put an end to the discrimination against people who are infected with the new coronavirus.
Catholic church leaders in the Philippines urged the faithful, especially church institutions, to respond to the coronavirus pandemic “with the eyes of faith, with the heart of charity, and with the armor of truth.”
Some Catholics in India’s southern state of Kerala have been copying the Bible by hand as they wait out the nation-wide lockdown put in place to suppress the spread of COVID-19.
Three Dominican brothers from Myanmar — Stephen Saw Lej Kapaw Htoo, Marko Thoe Reh, and Francis Bu Ling — made their solemn profession at St. Joseph’s House in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, on August 8.
Following an explosion that killed more than 150 people in Beirut, international Catholic groups have responded by providing health services and necessities to the victims.
When caught in difficult moments or trials, turn your heart to God, who is near even when you do not search for him, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sunday.
Caritas Bangladesh, the social action arm of the Catholic Church, has recently distributed food aid to thousands of people who were affected by the recent flooding in the country.
Resuming his weekly general audience, Pope Francis reminded that the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity enable us to heal the physical, social and spiritual infirmities of our times, such as those revealed by the pandemic.
A Lebanese Catholic priest has asked believers around the world to pray for the people of his country, after two explosions in Beirut injured hundreds of people and are reported to have left at least 10 people dead.
A Catholic bishop in China has denied that the government plans to tear down his cathedral, after local Catholics expressed concern at Communist authorities taking over land belonging to the diocese.
The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in the Indian state of Kerala establishing volunteer teams comprising priests, religious and laity willing to risk themselves so those who have died from COVID-19 can have a decent burial.
The US State Department has called on Pakistan to reform its blasphemy laws following the killing of an American citizen inside a courtroom in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
