The vice president of Haiti’s episcopal conference called for a world day of prayer for the Caribbean nation. “Our people have been suffering for years without anyone seeming to care,” …

Addressing a conference in Tajikistan, a Vatican diplomat said that “building resilience into the world’s agrifood systems is among the most urgent priorities of our time,” according to a summary …

Reflecting on synodality, the president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, called for a “spiritual culture” of listening. Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Daman and …

The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists fined a Catholic counselor $89,636 after he declined to bless a client’s same-sex relationship. Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on …

An Israeli soldier was sentenced to 21 days in military detention for placing a cigarette in the mouth of a Marian statue in Debel, Lebanon. A second soldier who photographed …

Addressing a UN discussion of migration, a Vatican diplomat praised the Global Compact for Migration (2018) and called for “renewed collective ownership and joint implementation.” “Migrants are, first and foremost, …

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, traveled to Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations with the …

The bishops of the Orthodox Church of Georgia (CNEWA profile) elected Shio III as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia on May 11.

The general counsel of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined by representatives of four other Catholic organizations, decried a policy change proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing …