1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (890+ words) Mexico’s Supreme Court. Image credit: By Thelmadatter – Own work, Public Domain, Link Catholic activists are accusing Mexico’s Supreme Court of judicial activism when it comes to expanding access to abortion in the Latin American nation. Over the past few months,…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (730+ words) Filipino journalist Marchel Espina, 39, faces an ‘unjust vexation’ case filed by a minister of the politically influential Christian group Iglesia ni Cristo. (Image credit: Marchel Espina.) MANILA, Philippines – Human rights and media watchdogs are defending a Filipino journalist facing an…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (645+ words) MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Catholic Church rejected a proposed $137.8-million budget to “reward” villages that have “cleared” themselves of communists, saying that the government should address the “structural roots of poverty” instead. Caritas Philippines, the social action arm of the…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (676+ words) Catholics at an anti-abortion demonstration in Washington D.C. in 2021. (Credit: Jose Luis Magana/AP.) ROME – Almost twenty years ago, I found myself seated at a lunch table during a Catholic conference next to Italian Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who at the time…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (348+ words) Patti Smith meeting Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican on July 31, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.) ROME — Rock legend Patti Smith was giddy and almost at a loss for words when she met Friday with Pope Leo XIV. “Hi,” she said softly…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (603+ words) UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday said debate around the introduction of assisted suicide should be put on hold until palliative and social care programs in the country are properly funded. “I take the view that that debate – and…...

3+ day, 15+ min ago   (869+ words) The point man on human development for the Catholic bishops of Bangladesh says public safety and democratic process need to be top priorities for the country’s new president – but first, the country will need to choose a new leader. “The…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1331+ words) The first few dollars felt like a lifeline. Sitting in his home in Kumbo, the epicenter of violence in Cameroon’s troubled English-speaking north west region, John (not his real name) clicked through an online platform to which he’d been introduced....

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (310+ words) Firefighters in France and Spain were bracing for more challenges on Tuesday, as a spell of hot and very dry weather was making its way through southwestern Europe, where wildfires continue to threaten life and property. There is no rain…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (316+ words) SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Authorities in Bosnia on Tuesday investigated the desecration of a Virgin Mary statue and a shrine damaged by fire overnight in a southern Bosnian village, a popular destination for Roman Catholic pilgrims. Two years ago, the Vatican gave…...