News - July 2019 RSS Feed

NEW DELHI, India - In the latest mob attack in India, a 17-year-old Muslim boy in northern Uttar Pradesh state was allegedly set ablaze by a Hindu mob after he refused to chant a slogan hailing the Hindu faith's Lord Ram.

Baiq Nuril Maknun became Indonesia's first non-political convict to receive a pardon. ​​​​“This is legal history," her lawyer said. "It was a progressive move taken to protect the rights of victims of violence,” he said.

MANILA, Philippines - International human right groups have expressed growing concern over reports of assassinations in the Philippines, especially of activists, in recent months.

WESTPHALIA, Texas - The Church of the Visitation in Westphalia, a nearly 125-year-old wooden church with bell towers on each side, burned to the ground July 29. ​​​​​​​

WARSAW, Poland - The president of the Polish bishops' conference condemned attacks on clergy and places of worship in the traditionally Catholic country as the church countered media accusations of inciting violence against LGBTQ groups.

A delegation from Blessed Stanley Rother's Oklahoma diocese visited Guatemala and found the martyred priest's missionary work there still flourishing.

ROME, Italy - Each year the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as other Eastern Christians, participate in a fasting season Aug. 1-14 in preparation for the Aug. 15 feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (which is celebrated as the Assumption in the Latin rite).

EL PASO, Texas - A Catholic diocese has teamed up with a local immigration aid group to help refugees on the western Texas-Mexico border. The Catholic Diocese of El Paso and the HOPE Border Institute introduced a new Go-Fund-Me drive on Monday.

SAN JOSE - After a shooting at a food festival in California on Sunday in which the gunman killed three people and injured 15, the US bishops' representative for domestic justice called for legislation to prevent such losses.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is asking the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to join a statewide novena for the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe Aug. 3–11, to defeat a "dangerous and unprecedented" piece of legislation, Senate Bill 24, which would require California State and University of California college health centers to supply medication abortion.

The Senate on Monday failed to override President Trump’s veto of their attempts to block over $8 billion in arms transfers to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Thirty experts in theology, social sciences and family life gathered for a symposium at the University of Notre Dame in mid-July to discuss ideas for enhancing the spirituality and vitality of Catholic families worldwide.

Africa's bishops pledged to work together to ensure that the continent's resources serve development and peace of all people.

A federal judge July 26 dismissed a $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post by a Kentucky Catholic high school student, ruling the newspaper's articles and tweets about the student's actions after the annual March for Life in January were protected by the First Amendment.

Prostitution is a horrendous crime that reduces vulnerable women to tortured slaves who are at the mercy of their clients, Pope Francis said.

Father Adam Young can think of a few failed recipes in the kitchen that might lead him to think he'd be a good contestant on the popular Food Network show "Worst Cooks in America."

Hundreds gathered late July 29 at St. Mary's Church for a bilingual prayer service, invited by Gilroy's Catholic community "to come together and pray for all those affected by the senseless tragedy."

Christians and Muslims prayed in the ruins of a church and a mosque in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, which was devastated by a five-month siege in 2017.

Saint Beatrice, or Beatrix, was a martyr who died in Rome during the fourth century Diocletian persecution (302 or 303).

The Vatican has allowed the bishops of Zimbabwe to open the sainthood cause of a British missionary murdered after he refused to abandon his ministry to people with Hansen's disease during the country's civil war.