The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad Twal, encouraged Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land this week to embrace... Read more
Various Catholic organizations have expressed their solidarity with Father Kizito Sesana, a Combonian missionary from Italy who has been unjustly... Read more
By a vote of 13-1, the legislature in the small state of Imo, Nigeria rejected the Reproductive Rights Bill last... Read more
Father Mario Rodriguez, director of the Pontifical Missionary Works in Pakistan, reported this week a group of Pakistani Christians will... Read more
U.S. President Barack Obama delivered an address to the Muslim world on Thursday at Cairo University, calling for religious tolerance,... Read more
Eucharistic Adoration in Uganda is attracting more lay people to prayer and encouraging vocations, an international Catholic charity reports. Read more
The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul Paulos Faraj Rahho will posthumously receive the 2009 Path to Peace Award, the Path to... Read more
Earlier this month a gang of armed robbers broke into a Tanzanian convent, attacking a nun, workers, and four elderly... Read more
The Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq, Archbishop Francis Chullikat, said last week the Muslim community and the royal family... Read more
The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced a plan to collect $144 million to be used... Read more
A leading priest in Ghana has proposed new initiatives to counter the exodus of young people to sects. His proposals... Read more
The Custodian of the Holy Land, Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, said this week that “conditions exists for finishing the fiscal... Read more
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the Holy Land has renewed its peoples’ strength and hope despite its conflicts and its... Read more
The Apostolic Nuncio to Israel, Archbishop Antonio Franco, said this week that in the wake of Benedict XVI’s visit to... Read more
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad Twal and the Custodian of the Holy Land, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, both said... Read more
Reflecting on his trip to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI praised the openness of the people to inter-religious dialogue,... Read more
Commenting on the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the Holy Land, the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, said on Wednesday:... Read more
This morning the Holy Father visited the Armenian Patriarchal Apostolic Church of Jerusalem, where he was greeted by Patriarch Torkom... Read more
Pope Benedict made the strongest appeal for peace of his entire trip as he prepared to depart for Rome on... Read more
After celebrating Mass in private at the apostolic delegation in Jerusalem, at 9 a.m. today the Holy Father traveled to... Read more