Jonathan Luxmoore - OSV News

Catholic officials in Latvia are trying to stay out of the region's ideological war with neighboring Russia."Latvia is home to a large Russian population and there are Russian-speakers in the Catholic Church. We're sensitive to historical animosities here, which could be reignited and u

Catholic leaders condemned "racism and xenophobia" in Europe and urged religious communities to speak out against a growing "nationalism of exclusion" of the type that preceded both world wars.The Conference of European Justice and Peace Commissions called it a "matter of se

New coalition appears ready to treat religious minorities with “openness and equality.”

Pope Francis plans to visit the Central African Republic late this year in an effort to end two years of intercommunal violence, the vice president of the country's bishops' conference confirmed.Bishop Nestor-Desire Nongo Aziagbia of Bossangoa told Catholic News Service Jan. 22 that the pope

Report argues exclusion is “no longer comprehensible.”

Driven underground quarter-century after it was re-legalized with the end of communist rule

Catholic left “afraid and unprotected” after Islamist militants seized Tripoli and Benghazi.

Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic criticized their country's transitional government for failing to "revive hopes" and end months of conflict between Islamist and Christian forces despite international backing.The bishops said July 2 that the January election of Presiden