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 ...
As the father of terminally-ill baby Alfie Evans appeals to the Pope, Catholic Bishops say they believe the decision-makers have acted 'with integrity'. The 23-month old has a degenerative...
The Catholic Bishops of Burundi have urged the incumbent president not to stand for a third term in this year's June elections. According to Vatican Radio Archbishop Evariste Ngoyagoye, the Metropoli...
The highest ranking Catholic in the Philippines has called for Filipinos to choose peace over violence and end a spate of drug-related killings. The Archbishop of Lingayan-Dagupan, Socrates Villegas,...
A bishop is urging countries that still have the death penalty to follow the global trend and remove it. Executions across the world fell by 31 per cent last year as many countries decreased their us...
A group of Catholic bishops have spoken out calling toilets based on gender identity rather than biological sex "disturbing". Two leading Catholics have denounced President Obama's instructions...
Catholic bishops in the United States have welcomed the latest federal court ruling against a travel ban proposed by Donald Trump. The US President issued an executive order on refusing entry to trav...
