3+ hour, 22+ min ago  (498+ words) Fredrick Nzwili, OSV News A Catholic priest working for peace and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was killed by armed men near his residence in the town of Zemio on June 29. Father Crepin Martial Monga, vicar of St. John…...

6+ hour ago  (94+ words) Bringing grassroots migrant voices to global advocacy ucanews. com Bubbles Beverly Asor is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences and academic coordinator of the Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics, or ISAC, at De…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (233+ words) ucanews. com Mozambique bishop's murder exposes government failure, climate of impunity Only weeks before his death on June 6, Bishop Os'rio Citora Afonso warned that violence in northern Mozambique was destroying communities and killing Christians. The bishop himself became the victim…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (992+ words) Katarzyna Szalajko, OSV News Nine Polish Salesian priests killed in German Nazi concentration camps during World War II were beatified June 6 at the Sanctuary of St. John Paul II in Krak'w during a Mass that highlighted not only their martyrdom…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (599+ words) For a repressive dictatorship to lock up its own citizens for advocating for human rights is shocking and outrageous, but not surprising. But for a repressive dictatorship to shut down one of the world's largest human rights conferences taking place…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (845+ words) Simone Orendain, OSV News On the first anniversary of Pope Leo XIV's election, a group promoting the Catholic faith in Chicago's south suburbs led an inaugural pilgrimage to his boyhood home and the church he attended as a boy. The…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (451+ words) Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV News A Catholic church in northern Mozambique was targeted in an attack by the Islamic State group that has carried out attacks against Christians and Muslims in the country since 2017. According to the pontifical charity Aid…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (572+ words) A global rights group has accused China's communist government of pressuring Zambia to cancel the world's largest annual gathering of human rights and democracy activists. Rights Con 2026 set to begin on May 5 has been cancelled at the very last minute,…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (401+ words) Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said on May 5 that the democratic island has the "right to engage with the world", after he returned from a trip to Africa that Taipei has accused Beijing of trying to derail. Taiwan said China applied…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (301+ words) Two speeches in three days. Different audiences, same argument. With the European parliamentarians, the pope cut straight to it. Real politics doesn't chase easy consensus. It has the nerve for unpopular choices. And, above all, it doesn't lapse into ideology:…...