El Santo Padre ha concedido, a través de una Carta, la Ecclesiastica Communio que le fue solicitada en conformidad con el can. 76§2 del CCEO por Su Beatitud Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, nuevo Patriarca de Cilicia de los Armenios.

“Las duras políticas migratorias, la pandemia del coronavirus, la violencia del crimen organizado”, son algunos de los factores que agudizan la situación de los migrantes en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. Entrevista a María Elena Hernández Lara, Coordinadora del Territorio Norte del Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes (JRM), Ciudad Juárez, México.

El Santo Padre Francisco recuerda al abnegado pastor que, durante años y con fidelidad, entregó su vida al servicio de Dios y de la Iglesia. El Cardenal Jorge Urosa Savino falleció en Venezuela el 23 de septiembre a primeras horas de la tarde por complicaciones debidas al Covid-19

As Germans prepare to go to the polls in a national election on Sunday, political parties are using the last two days of this campaign to win over undecided voters.

The UN rights chief urges the international community to redouble its efforts to restore democracy in Myanmar before it is too late.

Pope Francis has named Archbishop Filippo Santoro of Taranto as his Special Delegate to the Memores Domini Lay Association. Archbishop Santoro will temporarily assume the governance of the association in order to safeguard its charism and preserve its unity.

In his homily at Mass with the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) on Thursday, Pope Francis reflected on "three words that challenge us as Christians and Bishops in Europe: reflect, rebuild and see."

In a letter, Pope Francis has granted the “Ecclesiastica Communio” to the new Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church, who was elected on September 23. The Pope received His Beatitude Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian of Cilicia in the Vatican on Friday.

El papa Francisco está invitando a todos los católicos -- tanto aquellos en la corriente principal de la vida de la iglesia como aquellos en los márgenes -- a expresar sus sueños, ideas, y preocupaciones en preparación para el Sínodo de los Obispos en 2023.

Texas abortion providers urged the Supreme Court Sept. 23 to once again, and quickly, review their challenge to the state law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Two senior Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami planned to travel to Texas Sept. 24 to meet and pray with some of the thousands of migrants stuck in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Honest and open debate about different points of view in the Catholic Church are fundamental, but Catholics should not be demonizing the individuals with those views, Cardinal George Pell said.

Heads of several bishops' conferences and councils around the world called for greater collegiality and communion among bishops to confront the challenges facing the church in Europe and across the globe.

The bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church elected Archbishop Raphaël François Minassian, the ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, to be their church's new patriarch.

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne will take a "spiritual sabbatical" after a Vatican investigation found he did nothing illegal in his handling of clerical sex abuse allegations, but he did contribute to a "crisis of trust" in his archdiocese.

After a monthlong battle with COVID-19, Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, who led the Archdiocese of Caracas for 13 years, died at the age of 79.

While denouncing as an "abuse of power" coercive measures to promote vaccination against COVID-19, a leader of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said getting vaccinated "may sometimes be an eminently prudent act in the moral sense of the term."

Advocates say action is needed to stop the hemorrhaging of Christians from their biblical homelands, particularly Lebanon and Iraq, as safety, poor governance and economic crises imperil their future.

The bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church elected Archbishop Raphaël François Minassian, the ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, to be their church's new patriarch.

According to the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See is worried by the announced military collaboration between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia giving the latter submarines with nuclear technology.