The Director of the Holy See’s Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, said Monday the dialogue with the Muslim world desired... Read more
Zimbabwe’s Catholic bishops have asked their government to ensure free and fair elections, SW Radio Africa reports. Read more
Thirteen businesses belonging to Christians, as well as the façade of a church, have been attacked by Muslim extremists during... Read more
After a meeting of the bilateral commission of Israel and the Holy See on December 12 and 13, which is... Read more
A Catholic priest was stabbed in the stomach and hospitalized on Sunday, the Associated Press reports, adding to the numbers... Read more
In pouring rain, hundreds of Lebanese mourned the passing of Major General Francois El Hajj as his casket proceeded into... Read more
In order to celebrate the 660th anniversary of the presence of the Franciscans in the Holy Land, the Bethlehem grottos... Read more
Leaders from the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) on Tuesday reported on their recent... Read more
The Holy See and Israel are “very close to a historic conclusion” to the Fundamental Accord signed in 1993 and... Read more
Recently, CNA had the opportunity to send a writer to the Anbar Province of Iraq to cover the experiences of a... Read more
A team of archaeologists in Jerusalem claims to have discovered part of a wall described in the book of Nehemiah. Read more
"Shame, shame on the U.K.," thousands of armed Sudanese protestors shouted, as they spilled out of their mosques after their... Read more
Two important Church officials, Cardinal Renato Martino and the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Michel Sabbah, have expressed their satisfaction at... Read more
After a long-time battle with kidney problems, Archbishop Nicodemus Kirima of Nyeri, Kenya, died today in a Nairobi hospital at... Read more
A teacher from England was thrown into a Sudanese jail on Monday after being arrested for insulting the Prophet Muhammed... Read more
The path to peace in the Middle East could take a fortuitous turn today as leaders from 40 different organizations... Read more
At a Mass at Saint Peter's Basilica on Saturday elevating twenty-three clerics to the cardinalate, Pope Benedict XVI created the... Read more
The Catholic Bishop of Arabia has published an article examining the call to dialogue made by 138 Muslim scholars in... Read more
In a press release issued Tuesday, the bishops of Africa and Europe have called for more attention to be paid... Read more
"Distressing news is reaching us, concerning the precarious humanitarian situation in Somalia,” Pope Benedict said today following his general audience... Read more