Up to 200 Christians were massacred by Islamic extremists in Nigeria's troubled Benue state last Friday evening, according to ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square. But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the ...

In recent decades the U.S. Catholic Church, like many of the nation ... Leo’s background has made him as much an international religious figure as an American one. He has spent much of his ...

Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike. Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty ... from the church in the predominantly Catholic former ...

Alongside the dirt street in front of a small Catholic chapel ... cellphones taken from the three arrested men. On June 3, Amnesty International encouraged Honduran authorities to ensure that ...

Bells tolled in Catholic ... Church since John Paul II came in 1981. "The demise of Pope Francis is not only a great loss for the people of Vatican and Catholics, but also for the international ...

The State Administration Council (SAC) prohibits international aid workers ... for security reasons), explaining how the local Catholic Church provides education while dealing with the constant ...

The Roman Catholic ... church's 1.4 billion followers across all seven continents. The most globally representative group of cardinals in history will be weighing such factors as geography ...

Pope Francis was appointed just over a decade ago and came from the Global South, and that was seen as a symbol of where the Catholic Church was ... on the international global order, is one ...

helping to foster collaboration among Catholic bishops across Europe and to address contemporary issues facing the church on the continent. While careful to avoid taking part in Hungary’s often ...