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Rev. Dr Henriette Hutabarat-Lebang, from Gereja Tora, a Reformed church in Indonesia, was elected Asia president.

With St. Teresa of Kolkata's death 25 years ago, there is an entire generation of young men and women who did not see much about her life and legacy serving "the poorest of the poor."

When people hear that Frances and Vincent Vaccaro have three sons who are priests, they might wonder how the parents “did it,” and assume they must be super-saints.

The Transformers star, Shia LaBeouf, converted to Catholicism after studying the life of “Padre Pio” at the Franciscan Capuchin Monastery to play the “Pio.”

All the Cardinals of the world are in Rome, first time in years, to reflect on the pope’s recent constitution on the Roman curia, Praedicate Evangelium. 

WCC 11th Assembly will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 31 August to 8 September, under the theme "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity.”

Synodality is ultimately about mission says Fr Stephen Bevans SVD , in a major mission conference and deliver a presentation to the SVD community in Australia.

Four Reverend sisters of the Congregation of the Sister of Jesus the Savior were kidnapped along the Okigwe-Umulolo road on their way to Mass on Sunday.

The purpose of the SWC was to raise awareness of the importance of peace in the backdrop of global wars and conflicts, and the culture of friction and hate in the digital world is seriously threatening the value of peace.

We need to move from individual engagement to community building. As Pope Francis says, "God’s style is closeness, compassion, and tenderness’.

“Going on mission is to go out of yourselves to give the best of yourselves and the best of what God gives,” says Pope Francis

As the Church in Japan holds its annual Ten Days of Prayer for Peace event the Japanese bishops reiterate that peace is everybody’s responsibility. In their message for the occasion, signed by the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan (CBCJ), Archbishop Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo, the prelates reflect on Pope Francis’ words in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Gunmen on a motorcycle approached the Father Vélez Jiménez' vehicle and opened fire on July 28

Brother Paul Bednarczyk, CSC, was elected as the first brother to be a Superior General in the Holy Cross Congregation. 

President Joe Biden will award the nation’s highest civilian honor to a Catholic sister next week.

The order to shut down the sisters and 100 other nongovernmental organizations was requested by a Sandinista legislator in a June 22 letter.

An Italian missionary who dedicated herself to working with street children in Haiti for more than 20 years, was murdered on Saturday.

Two Catholic priests from Asia are among those who are newly elected to the leadership team of the worldwide Society of St Paul, founded in Italy by Blessed James Alberione.

Two Jesuits in Mexico, Latin America, were killed on June 20, 2022.

Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay was elected as the new general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).