JERUSALEM (CNS) -- As his Muslim neighbors and fellow Jericho residents make their way home for the iftar, which breaks the daily fast throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Franciscan Father Mario Hadchiti hands out small bags of dates and water to passersby in front of the Franciscan Good Shepherd Church.

ROME (CNS) -- The Centre for Child Protection at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University has been transformed into a Vatican-approved academic institute with its own faculty and ability to award advanced academic degrees.

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- It took courage for Leilani Arellano to return to Mass, but she is glad to be back.

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Archbishop Franco Coppola, papal ambassador to Mexico, recently traveled to a town besieged by warring drug cartels to reiterate the church's commitment to serving populations suffering violence.

LANDSKRONA, Suecia (CNS) -- Después de realizar un arduo viaje desde su Eritrea natal hasta la ciudad costera de Sundsvall, Suecia, en 2014, Solomon Tesfay soñó con una vida mejor para él, su esposa, y sus tres hijos.

CIUDAD DE MEXICO (CNS) -- Los migrantes que llegaron a Ciudad Juárez en los últimos años han permanecido estancados en esta ciudad fronteriza mexicana sin poder solicitar asilo en Estados Unidos, quedando vulnerables a delitos como secuestro, robo, y extorsión.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) -- As the Twin Cities and the nation continue to absorb events that led to the April 20 guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, Minnesota's Catholic leaders are pointing a way forward: Christ's example of forgiveness, compassion and thirst for justice.

Father Edwin Román celebrated Mass recently for the family of university student Álvaro Gómez, who was killed three years ago in demonstrations against the Nicaraguan government.

SÃO PAULO (CNS) -- As unemployment increases and COVID-19 infections surge in the country, Catholic entities in Brazil are ramping up efforts to feed the increasing number of people going hungry.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Unidentified gunmen broke into the home of the bishop-designate of Rumbek, South Sudan, shot him in both legs and fled, according to church news reports.

THRISSUR, India (CNS) -- Catholic hospital directors in India told Catholic News Service they did not have enough facilities to treat patients as India set records for the number of COVID-19 deaths -- numbers many people believe were underreported.

The experience of tragedy and loss can help Christians become a consoling presence for others in need of hope and consolation, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The priesthood "is not a career, it is a service," Pope Francis told nine men just before ordaining them to the priesthood for the Diocese of Rome.

Pope Francis issued a decree declaring the sainthood of Blessed Margaret of Città di Castello, a much-loved Italian Dominican laywoman.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the wake of a deadly fire in a Baghdad hospital treating COVID-19 patients and more migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis prayed for the victims of the disasters and their families.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesus is the good shepherd who knows, loves and defends his sheep, embracing everyone without exception, Pope Francis said.

Businessmen Humberto S. Lopez and Jim Click provide scholarships to twenty-five business students!

Indian hospitals warned on Saturday that they are at breaking point as Coronavirus case numbers set a new record for a third consecutive day.

EAST WILLISTON, N.Y. (CNS) -- To put Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella's extraordinarily long life into historical perspective, consider that Pope Pius X was pontiff and Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president when she was born in 1913.

ROME – With Russia building up its troops in the border with Ukraine, Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the current head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, is warning the conflict is not only a threat for the region, but for the world.