CHEERS, music and moments of silent prayer marked one of Scotland's largest Catholic youth gatherings as more than 700 pupils ...

FORCED from their church by an earthquake two months earlier, 62 youths from a small mountain community in Venezuela gathered outdoors to receive the sacrament of Confirmation. The celebratory Mass ...

JERUSALEM’S Christian schools suspended classes yesterday (1st September) after Israeli authorities failed to renew entry ...

AS rescue workers comb through mud and debris left by deadly floods and landslides, Nepal’s Catholic community is mobilising aid for families who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods. Father ...

Ahead of the UN’s annual day remembering those attacked for their Faith, the president of Scotland’s Bishops’ Conference has called for support for a petition urging authorities to defend religious ...

THE Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Archbishop Richard Moth, has added his voice to a campaign calling on the UN and governments ...

Emergency aid is to be sent to Colombia by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in response to the earthquake that has devastated parts of the country. Within 36 hours of the 7.4 quake ...

HAITI’S gangs are trying to silence the Church as it remains the last institution challenging their stranglehold, a bishop has warned as worsening violence pushes back elections. Bishop Joseph ...

A senior priest in Nigeria has called on the government to help Christians in displacement camps desperate to fulfil their dreams and return to their ancestral lands. Father Remigius Ihyula of Makurdi ...

BISHOPS in Pakistan have spoken of their dismay after the country’s Supreme Court quashed the sentences of three men convicted of killing a Christian man and his pregnant wife who were burnt to death ...