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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).

A Christian student from Madagascar, East Africa graduated with the best Bachelor of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences from Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, Indonesia.

Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara, ordained 70 men to the priesthood on June 4 and 5 at the Mexican Martyrs Shrine in that city.

172 children received the first Holy Communion in Baghdida, Qaraqosh, Iraq last June 3, 2022

The Vatican released a statement after Pope Francis learned of the attack.

Bishop Paul Hinder, the apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia, published his last pastoral letter on June 3, 2022.

As part of a weekend-long celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne, Pope Francis has sent a telegram to the Queen offering his prayers and warm wishes on June 2, 2022.

The Council of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) elected Christine Nathan from India as the new president. She is the first ICMC president from Asia.

Pope Francis on June 1 named Cardinal Blase Cupich as a member of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.