The French Senate has rejected an assisted suicide bill for the third time, the latest chapter in France’s long-running parliamentary drama that will still likely result in the legislation being adopted. On Tuesday, the French…
Landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed more than a dozen people in the past few days, including children and women in the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, southeast Bangladesh. The Office of the Refugee…
Two U.S. dioceses welcomed three new bishops this month with ordinations and installations in both the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. In Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy ordained Bishop Gary Studniewski…
Pope Leo XIV has urged Iraqi Christians to be the light of Christ amid worsening persecution and insecurity. In a video message published by the Vatican on July 8 for the Ankawa Youth Meeting in…
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday named Rome priest Father Pier Luigi Stolfi the first moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Rome, as the pontiff continues to reform the diocese’s central organization in the…
MANILA, Philippines – Trumpets blared, the smoke of incense billowed, and three men in white vestments marched around the Senate while sprinkling it with holy water and exorcised salt. Filipino activist priest Father Robert Reyes,…
Pope Leo XIV still has a Peruvian credit card, wakes in the middle of the night and checks soccer results, follows the Chicago White Sox, and uses a cellphone. He is also, according to Brian…
The bishop-elect for the English diocese of Arundel and Brighton believes there is a place for AI in the Church, even if there are risks involved. Father Stephen Wang, who was chosen by Pope Leo…
Memorial programs were held across India on July 5 to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, the 84-year-old tribal rights activist who died in custody at a Mumbai hospital…
Jack GuezThis picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel shows a base of United Nations in southern Lebanon near the Israel-Lebanon border on July 1, 2026. Israel’s defense minister said…