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Category: World News

Cardinal Turkson calls for justice and forgiveness amid US anti-racism protests

Demonstrators have come out in large numbers across the United States to protest against the death of George Floyd, an African-American man, while in police custody....

Saint of the day: St. Marcellinus and St. Peter, Martyrs

During the persecution of Diocletian in the year 304, a Roman priest called Marcellinus and an exorcist named Peter were apprehended and thrown into prison. While in...

Saint of the day: St. Justin, Martyr, Patron of Lecturers

Born at Nablus, ancient Shechem in Palestine, around the year 100 AD, Justin came from a pagan family. At the age of thirty-three, after years of studying the various...

Why we pray during a global pandemic

A reflection by Cardinal Blase Cupich and Metropolitan Nathanael Symeonides, published in L’Osservatore Romano During times of great uncertainty, small moments of...

Pope Francis donates Ventilators to Zambia

Presenting the donation, the Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia and Malawi Archbishop Gianfranco Gallone announced that the donation which includes medical items such as N95...

Pope sends blessing to Churches in UK and Ireland for Day for Life

“Choose life” is the theme chosen for the 2020 edition of the Day for Life of the Catholic Churches in the UK and Ireland. Meaning and value of human life...

Pope appoints new Bishop for Wagga Wagga, Australia

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Mark Stuart Edwards, O.M.I., as Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia. He has been serving as Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne with the titular...

Philippine Nunciature warns against person claiming to be close to Pope

The Apostolic Nunciature in the Philippine capital Manila has alerted the country’s bishops against a certain Cristian Eduardo Tietze who is falsely claiming to be...

Hunger in Venezuela becoming ‘a fuel more dangerous than gasoline’

An archbishop in Venezuela warned that desperation is growing in the country, as the national coronavirus quarantine measures have compounded a tenuous political and...

Italy’s bishops criticize state for keeping public Mass ban

Italy’s bishops have criticized Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for failing to lift the ban on public Masses. The Italian bishops’ conference Sunday released a...