The move places increased pressure on the dictatorship, which for years has carried out systematic persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua. […]
The State Department named Catholic Relief Services as the first in a round of global aid awards a year after the Trump administration closed the United States Agency for International Development. […]
While the main role of port chaplains with Stella Maris is to celebrate Mass and the sacraments aboard ships, their work includes providing counsel and aid to sailors, Bishop Frank Schuster said. […]
“Everything has to be vetted by the government, especially what priests are going to preach on Sunday,” said Rosalia Gutierrez-Huete Miller in a panel discussion on human rights in Nicaragua. […]
“Central Nigeria remains entrenched in an intense, daily, and seemingly perpetual crisis of insecurity,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said in a recent report. […]
A worldwide rosary, coordinated by the Dicastery for Evangelization, will be prayed at the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens on May 30. […]
“The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?” Vance told NBC News. […]
Catholic leaders protest a new law in Israel expanding capital punishment for Palestinians, Bangladesh bans finding out the sex of babies in the womb, and more in this week’s world news roundup. […]
“Current federal investments in housing programs do not meet the great need we see in our country,” said a joint letter by the bishops and leaders of two Catholic charitable groups. […]
Twenty-one diocesan officials lobbied Congress on housing, food insecurities, and other poverty-related issues. […]
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