Officials have destroyed a 20-foot-tall statue of Jesus that has been standing in a village in India for 18 years.

Ante el procupante estado de salud de la expresidenta de Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, a raíz de una huelga de hambre que inició para pedir su libertad, los obispos bolivianos pidieron que se le ofrezca asistencia hospitalaria.

Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial de la Justicia Social de la ONU, que este año se centra en la superación de la economía sumergida en favor del empleo salarial.

Madagascar y Brasil, ambos países afectados por catástrofes naturales, en el pensamiento del Papa tras la oración mariana del domingo 20 de febrero. También la labor y la entrega del personal sanitario estuvieron en el centro de sus saludos, con motivo del Día Nacional a ellos dedicado en Italia.

Rezar por quien nos ha tratado mal, sin ceder al instinto y al odio, pidiendo a Dios la fuerza de amar, tal como nos lo enseña Jesús, que pone la otra mejilla para apagar el odio y la injusticia, y pide cuentas con gentileza del mal recibido. Fueron algunas de las enseñanzas del Papa Francisco a la hora del Ángelus dominical, al meditar sobre el Evangelio del día.

Promoting better collaboration between women and men in the Catholic Church is not primarily about equality but about allowing the church to fulfill the mission given to it by God, said women speakers at a Vatican conference on priesthood.

During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis invites people to follow the example of Jesus and react to wrongdoing with kindness rather than anger or violence.

As the dust began to settle last year on the Vatican’s troubled $400 million dollar land deal in London, and as the colossal dimensions of the failure it represents became clear, Pope Francis was determined to put someone on trial, including his former chief of staff, Italian Cardinal Becciu, along with nine other defendants.

Elijah Nayoo received his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Akrofu, a town some 84 miles northeast of this country's capital. His decision to get vaccinated followed a massive education and awareness campaign by religious sisters that encouraged him and thousands of others to get vaccinated against the virus.

Several experts are warning that the humanitarian situation in Africa’s Sahel Region could spiral out of control, without outside intervention.

The murder of a 9-year-old boy in a disputed area of land in Brazil’s Pernambuco State exposed many in Brazil to the gravity of the current situation of rural workers who are waiting for land reform.

Following a historic meeting of the Catholic Church of Latin America and the Caribbean last November, senior leaders from the region recently traveled to Rome to discuss the fruits of the gathering with Pope Francis.

In a sturdy homemade woodshop amid filbert orchards not far from the Willamette River, the gears of 90-year-old Vern Stuewe's mind crank all day.

Nearly 50 years ago when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide, a woman in Huntington, Indiana, saw the need to support pregnant women and help protect the lives of unborn babies in her small corner of the world.

March 11 is the entry deadline for a religious liberty essay contest for high school juniors and seniors co-sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty, the USCCB Secretariat of Catholic Education and Our Sunday Visitor Institute.

María Costanza Panas, monja profesa de las Clarisas Capuchinas del Monasterio de Fabriano, será beatificada, mientras que se han reconocido las virtudes heroicas del cardenal Eduardo Francisco Pironio -que fuera presidente del Consejo Pontificio para los Laicos y uno de los creadores de las Jornadas Mundiales de la Juventud- y de las siervas de Dios Inmaculada Brienza, Benigna Víctima de Jesús y Juana Méndez Romero