Daniel O’Connell, lithograph attributed to R. Evan Sly (EP OCON-DA (17) II) from the National Library of Ireland. / Credit: National Library of Ireland Dublin, Ireland, Aug 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Daniel O’Connell,… Daniel O’Connell: The peaceful liberator who won Catholic emancipation in Ireland
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MUMBAI, India – A member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India has been accused of making “provocative statements” against Christians. A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed before the Bombay High… Christian group calls for action against Hindu nationalist population
MANILA, Philippines – Filipino Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David questioned a decades-old law against illegal gambling after the death of a 20-year-old man whose father was arrested for playing an outlawed street game. Dion Angelo dela… Cardinal David questions Philippines’ gambling law after young man’s death
MUMBAI, India – St. Xavier’s College has cancelled its annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture in Mumbai, originally scheduled for the evening of August 9, following a protest by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a… Lecture dedicated to activist Jesuit priest in India cancelled to to Hindu nationalists
“St. Dominic of Guzman” by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. / Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). The first image to greet visitors to the… A dog, a torch, and a saint: The fiery mission of St. Dominic
[Editor’s Note: On Aug. 1, Crux published an article by Elise Ann Allen mentioning a former priest who was laicized in December 2024, which included witness testimony from several anonymous sources describing a history of… Peruvian ex-priest responds to Crux coverage
MANILA, Philippines – An archbishop in the southern Philippines ordered the temporary closure of a 19th-century parish after a vlogger allegedly spat into its holy water font, an incident that went viral and fueled rage… Historic Filipino parish closed after vlogger ‘spits’ into holy water font
Ala z via The European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. Felix Böllmann, the director of European advocacy of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, called the report ‘a thinly veiled attempt to silence ideological opponents under… Christian Rights Group Challenges ‘Extremism’ Claims in EU Abortion Lobby Report