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The Commission for Justice, Peace, Migrants, and Itinerant People of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia said that there is a moral obligation to restore forests that have burned down, rather than converting them to economic uses such as agriculture and mining. The commission made its call for ecosystem restoration in an October 26 ... read more

Peter Bhatti, the brother of the Servant of God Shahbaz Bhatti (1968-2011), said that “neither the U.K. nor any other Western government is doing enough for the persecuted Christians of Pakistan.” Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, was assassinated by members of the Taliban. His brother said earlier this week that “the ... read more

Citing “polarization, a lack of institutional integrity, and restrictions on democratic guarantees,” the bishops of Venezuela called for “free and transparent elections, with an impartial National Electoral Council (CNE) and an independent Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), so that due process is guaranteed, disqualifications are brought to an end, and the political rights of all ... read more

Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is the greatest), a group of teenagers disrupted Mass at an unnamed parish in Vienna, Austria, earlier this month. “There was no danger; it was not a threatening situation: I want to make that clear,” said the parish priest. “It was likely just youthful high spirits.” The priest told ... read more

Archbishop Edward Weisenburger of Detroit joined a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on October 30. “Sometimes what people most need is for others to stand in solidarity with them,” he said. “I never thought I’d see something like that in my day: hiding behind masks, snatching people off streets.” The ... read more

The saints were so completely dead to themselves that they cared very little whether others agreed with them or not. — St. John Vianney ... read more

The Roman Martyrology commemorates today St. Quentin, martyr (d. 287), a Roman, descended from a senatorial family. Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, he left his country, and, attended by St. Lucian of Beauvais, made his way to Gaul. They preached the faith together in that country till they reached Amiens in ... read more

The presidents of the bishops’ conferences of Europe issued an “unwavering appeal for a just and sustainable peace in all conflict zones on this continent and across the globe.” “Our continent of Europe is facing the largest military conflict since World War II,” the prelates, who were meeting in Salzburg, said in their October ... read more

The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued its annual message to Hindus ahead of Diwali (Deepavali), the Hindu festival of lights. The message—entitled “Hindus and Christians: Forging pathways of peace together in the ‘spirit of Assisi’”—recalls the 40th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s 1986 day of prayer for peace there. “As ... read more

An estimated 2,000 Ukrainians waited in line in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, as the prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity led a delegation that distributed bread and canned food. Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A., began a humanitarian mission to Ukraine on October 27. After he arrived in Zaporizhzhia the following evening, ... read more

undefined Midterm election coverage begins on EWTN News Nov. 1, 2026. Coverage of next week’s U.S. midterm elections by the global Catholic network will be available on multiple platforms. ... read more

undefined WEWN’s shortwave transmitters are seen in an undated photograph in Shelby County, Alabama. The global Catholic network has operated a shortwave station since the early 1990s, but high costs and the changing media landscape led to its closure. ... read more

A Convert from Communism by Michael J. Miller Douglas Hyde, a Communist party member in England and news editor of the Daily Worker, converted from atheism and was received into the Catholic Church in 1949. [...] ... read more

Cardinal Luis Cabrera, archbishop of Guayaquil in Ecuador, has announced a safety plan aimed at preventing accidents such as the one that claimed the life of Father Patricio Sánchez Molinari, who was killed when a large crucifix broke loose from the sanctuary wall behind him and struck him on the head as he said Mass.The ... read more

EWTN Global Catholic Network (EWTN) will cease the operation of its long-running shortwave radio service this month, EWTN Chairman of the Board and CEO Michael Warsaw announced on Oct. 30.The shortwave service, which has operated under the call sign WEWN since its launch in 1992, will shut down on Oct. 31. EWTN’s board of governors ... read more