Easter celebrations are being cancelled at a cathedral in the Philippines this year, months after the landmark was severely damaged by extremists connected to I Worshippers who had planned to attend ...
A man has been arrested after entering St Patrick's Cathedral in New York carrying two cans of petrol, lighter fluid and butane lighters, police said. The incident came just days after flames ravaged...
The 130 people who died in a series of attacks on Paris exactly one year ago are being remembered during a service at Notre Dame Cathedral. The landmark, which responded to the shootings and suicide ...
Armed Forces in the Philippines have retaken St Mary's cathedral in Marawi after more than three months in the hands of Islamist extremists. Experts have spent the last few days removing improvised e...
A Russian Cathedral is planning to distribute 10,000 free eggs this Easter. According to Russian news service Interfax, volunteers will paint the eggs in the lead up to Easter Saturday.The eggs will ...
The world's Catholic bishops are meeting in Rome to discuss the Church's outreach to gay people, divorcees and more traditional Catholic families. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of Catholics in...
Prisoners of conscience are suffering beatings and poor health in prison in Vietnam, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). The human rights organisation said it is concerned for the safe...
Life for Palestinians in the occupied territories is worsening, an alliance of Catholic development agencies warned on Monday as it emerged Israel had approved International Cooperation for Developm...
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, or Cafod, has called upon world leaders to correct a perceived poor response to the threat posed by climate change The call to action coincides with a me...
This week the UN General Assembly world leaders gathered in New York for the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Attended by heads of state and government from across the world this yea...
A Catholic aid charity working in Greece has said the migrant and refugee crisis is reaching a state of emergency. Joshua Kyller, co-ordinator of Catholic Relief Services' work in the Balkans, ...
More aid workers have been sent in by the Catholic Church to provide life-saving aid to civilians affected by fighting in eastern Ukraine. Fresh violence between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian...
Leaders from the Catholic and Orthodox Church in Syria have condemned Saturday's air strikes in the country by the US, UK and France. In a statement issued by the Patriarchates of Antioch and all the...
The Catholic archbishop of Sydney has warned religious people will face discrimination suits and even lose their jobs, businesses and political careers if same- Anthony Fisher made a call for a no-vo...
A Lebanese Archbishop is calling on Europe to rethink the conflict in Syria following the Islamic State (IS) terror attacks in Paris on the 13th November that k Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Issa...
A Catholic Archbishop has called on the UN to face the realities of children in violent conflict zones and provide them with better support and protection. Addressing the United Nations Security Coun...
The most senior Catholic leader in England and Wales says he has witnessed first-hand the 'isolation' Christian communities are experiencing who live in the Hol Cardinal Vincent Nicholls and Archbish...
The Catholic Bishop for Migrants has said he is "deeply concerned" with the migrant crisis in Calais. Rt Revd Patrick Lynch's comments come just days after he praised the Home Secretary Theresa May a...
A Catholic bishop accused of repeatedly raping a nun has been arrested by police in India. Franco Mulakkal was formally arrested after police questioned him for three days in the southern Indian city...
A Catholic bishop is raising concern for Burma as the country declares state of emergency. Rt Revd Declan Lang, who's Chair of the Bishops' Conference Department of International Affairs said: "I am ...
