Una lectura de los gestos y palabras del Papa Francisco en el primer día de su viaje a Canadá y su encuentro con los indígenas.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's line-item veto of more than $20 million in funding to support adoption programs, pregnancy resource centers and grants to help struggling mothers is "terribly unfortunate," the Michigan Catholic Conference said.

Over the past 50 years, D.B. Cooper has become one of the most famous aliases in history. Yet it was really under the name Dan Cooper that a still-unidentified man carried out the mysterious hijacking -- and getaway -- that have since made him the stuff of legend.

Explosions have rocked a critical Ukrainian port just a day after Kyiv and Moscow signed a landmark deal to allow the resumption of grain exports described as a "Beacon of Hope" for a hungry world. Saturday's attack came a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an accord on grain exports.

Vatican media presents a story by Dale Recinella, a former Wall Street finance lawyer who, along with his wife Susan, assists prisoners in Florida.

When Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro takes office Aug. 7, he will look to the Catholic Church to play a key role in helping him to fulfill a primary goal: negotiating a peace deal with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla movement, which has been terrorizing the country since the 1960s.

Disturbing reports from cash-strapped Zimbabwe indicate that girls and women are resorting to using cow dung as sanitary pads as inflation “hits feminine hygiene products,” according to Africanews.

The community at St. Mary Mother of God appealed to Cardinal Wilton Gregory during an archdiocesan synod listening session not to ban the Traditional Latin Mass at the parish, mainly because it would mean potentially losing about half of the parishioners.

Congo produces over 70% of the world's cobalt, which along with other minerals, is used in components for smartphones, digital cameras, computer hard disks, flat-screen televisions, computer monitors and other high-tech devices.

Several hundred pro-life advocates were gathered for a pro-life rally in Las Cruces the evening of July 19 when Mark Cavaliere, executive director of the Southwest Coalition for Life, made a surprise announcement.

After a flight of more than 10 hours from Rome, Pope Francis landed in Edmonton and met briefly at the airport with Indigenous leaders, Canada's governor general and prime minister before heading to the local seminary for a rest.

Publicada por la oficina de prensa del Vaticano en alemán e italiano el 21 de julio, la declaración dice que la Iglesia católica en Alemania no podía "iniciar nuevas estructuras o doctrinas oficiales en las diócesis, antes de un entendimiento acordado a nivel de la Iglesia universal".

En su mensaje para la Jornada Mundial de Oración por el Cuidado de la Creación, el papa dijo que la crisis climática es un llamado a hombres y mujeres, especialmente cristianos, a "arrepentirse y modificar nuestros estilos de vida y sistemas destructivos".

Con motivo del 37º viaje apostólico del Papa Francisco, recordamos el de San Juan Pablo II en 1984 en el país norteamericano y su visita a Fort Simpson en 1987. En esas circunstancias, el Pontífice polaco se reunió con representantes de los pueblos aborígenes y subrayó que "ha llegado el momento de restañar las heridas, de sanar todas las divisiones".

“Es necesario un discernimiento informado y un voto en conciencia”. Así lo manifiestan los obispos chilenos en un documento que es fruto del estudio de la propuesta constitucional realizado a la luz de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia. Esta reflexión se llevó a cabo durante el encuentro que se realizó del 18 al 22 de julio

Francisco está en Edmonton. El avión papal aterrizó ayer en el aeropuerto internacional de la capital del Estado de Alberta, primera escala de este 37º viaje apostólico a Canadá. Hoy se celebran dos actos en reconocimiento del dolor infligido por la colonización a los pueblos indígenas.

South Sudan, a nation already grappling with a longstanding civil war and the devastating affects of climate change, has suddenly found itself being left on its own to handle a deepening hunger crisis.