An international Catholic charity will provide aid to more than 40 projects in Syria and other parts of the Middle East. Aid to the Church in Need UK has said that it hopes to provide more than...
Aid to the Church in Need is donating almost three hundred thousand pounds to help persecuted Christians in Syria. The charity has issued a stark warning that Christianity will not survive in the Mid...
Catholic charities are urging the government to prioritise unaccompanied minors in 'The Jungle' evictions in Calais as the first phase of clearing migrants and CSAN and Secours Catholique want the F...
Catholic international development charity (CAFOD) has urged the UK government to use Monday's visit by the Colombian president as an opportunity to tell him to The Catholic charity said Iván Duque ...
A Catholic charity has warned that Haiti is in danger of being overrun by Zika virus due to poor living conditions in the country. The Catholic Mission says that pools of stagnant water combine...
A doctor fighting the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has warned that public mistrust is hampering efforts to halt the spread of the de "This is the first time we have seen t...
At least 547 members of a renowned Catholic boys' choir in south western Germany were physically or sexually abused, a new report has found. The incidents took place at the Domspatzen choir in Regens...
The Roman Catholic Church has grown by 157 million followers globally since 2005, the Vatican has reported. Commenting ahead of the release of the 2016 edition of the Pontifical Yearbook - a major di...
The Catholic Church in Ireland has responded to the announcement of a new referendum on abortion rights by urging people to be "courageous" and take a "principl Leaders have expressed their "responsi...
The Catholic Church has called for the Irish Government to step up its response to the growing homelessness crisis saying it cannot be left to the vol A pastoral letter, launched on Monday ...
The Catholic Church has called Italy's decision to approve civil unions a "loss for everyone". Italy's most senior Catholic bishop Monsignor Nunzio Galantino was speaking after the lower Chamber of D...
The Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines has raised concerns after President Rodrigo Duterte publicly linked more than 150 judges, mayors, politicians The crackdown has been one of the bigg...
Catholics across the Philippines will hear criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte's 'war on drugs' at mass this weekend. A letter signed by the country's bishops will be read out at all services.In i...
The Catholic Church in the Philippines has defended comments made by the eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquaio. The Christian was accused of making a homophobic slur, he said homosexu...
Catholics in the United States have approved 47 grants to support Church in Africa projects. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Subcommittee on the Church in Africa is gi...
The Catholic Church in Chile has been rocked by an email scandal surrounding an infamous paedophile. Leaked emails between the Archbishop of Santiago and his predecessor show that the men c...
Cuba's Catholic Church is calling on Cubans to reject a plan to legalise gay marriage. Under the country's proposed new constitution, marriage would be defined as between "two people" rather th...
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne has assets worth £2.5bn, making it richer than the Vatican. The Cologne archdiocese has been under pressure to divulge more of its finances since Pope Franc...
The Catholic Church in Italy has received almost £1bn from income tax-returns. The money came in via a system that sends 0.8% of tax payments to charity or to religious institutions.According ...
An investigation has been launched by the Catholic Church after two missionary nuns became pregnant whilst working in Africa. One of the nuns, a mother superior, aged 34, only realised she was pregna...
