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Expert says authorities ignoring increasing extremism at Spanish Mosques
The director of the Institute for the Study of Conflicts and Humanitarian Action in Spain, Jesus Nuñez Diaz, criticized Spanish... Read more
Secretary of Bishops Conference of Brazil explains Church’s opposition to abortion due to anencephaly
Bishop Odilo Pedro Sherer, secretary general of the Bishops Conference of Brazil, explained during a televised debate this week the... Read more
Bolivian bishops call for participation in referendum
The secretary general of the Bolivian Bishops Conference, Bishop Jesus Juarez, called on Bolivians this week to participate in a... Read more
Battle for marriage ‘has just begun’ says family group after Senate blocks amendment
The vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment in the Senate shows just how little regard senators have for the will... Read more
Cardinal Sodano meets with Russian foreign minister
This morning the vice-director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Ciro Benedettini, C.P., announced that a meeting had taken... Read more
Bishop Kicanas denies ‘conspiracy’ in announcing possible bankruptcy
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson defended his diocese’s decision to consider filing for bankruptcy in the Yuma Sun yesterday... Read more
Vietnamese Catholic refugees arrive in U.S. diocese
Thanks to Catholic Charities, about 3,600 Christian refugees from Hmong, Vietnam, will be resettled in Wisconsin. Almost 300 of these... Read more
Alarm in Italy as growth of Satanism creates “market” for consecrated hosts
Fr. Aldo Buonaiuto, director of an “emergency help line” that assists young people wanting to get out of satanic cults,... Read more
Turkish convert persecuted for the faith hopes to return as a priest to his country
Seminarian Timothy Aytac, a Turkish convert from Islam, who suffered not only rejection but also persecution and violence in his... Read more
Colombian bishop battling cancer and seeking peace with rebels
For a long time Bishop German Garcia Isaza of Apartado, Colombia, has been battling against two very powerful enemies: lymphatic... Read more
U.S. bishops join other religious leaders to support marriage amendment
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops joined other religious leaders yesterday in voicing their support for the Federal Marriage... Read more
Photo album "John Paul among the Mountains" presented
On July 12 a book entitled "John Paul II Among the Mountains," by Nadia Millery Ognibene and Raffaella Poletti, was... Read more
Archbishop Burke to release Pastoral Letter stressing priority of abortion issue
The St. Louis Review, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, revealed this week that Archbishop Raymond L. Burke... Read more
Marriage amendment necessary to stop ‘despotic judges’, says Catholic League
Catholic League president William Donohue said the Federal Marriage Amendment is necessary “because those who support homosexual marriage have already... Read more
Venezuelan bishops call participation in referendum “inescapable duty”
Wrapping up their general assembly, which took place July 7-12, the bishops of Venezuela issued a document calling participation in... Read more
Human rights leader denounces rigidity of Cuban government
In a press release issued on Monday in Havana, Cuban dissident and leader of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights... Read more
Archbishop Burke and pro-abortion Congressman make no comment after meeting
Archbishop Raymond Burke and Democratic Congressman William Lacy Clay offered no comment after their private meeting yesterday, during which they... Read more
Tucson Diocese prepares parishioners for bankruptcy
Parishioners in the Diocese of Tucson were told for the first time of the possibility of their diocese filing for... Read more
Ugandan President stirs AIDS summit proposing abstinence
A debate erupted at the 15th International AIDS Conference yesterday after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told delegates that abstinence, not... Read more
Church in Austria trying to react fast to new sex scandal
Catholic leaders in Austria have reacted quickly to the emergence of a new sex scandal, discovered at a local seminary.... Read more
