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A Russian church official said the bishops' conference is studying the implications of a new government law tightening control over the funding of churches and religious associations."What matters in Russia isn't what the laws say, but how they're interpreted and applied by local of

Ethiopia's Catholic bishops condemned "in unambiguous terms" the execution of 30 Ethiopian Christian migrants in Libya."These Ethiopian martyrs who were butchered on the coast and desert of Libya were not politicians, nor military soldiers, or they were not armed people, considere

The second of two talks on the complementary nature of men and women

Catholics asked to try to better understand the everyday issues faced by nonwhites.

To say that Cardinal Francis E. George was an intellectual would be an understatement. To try to quantify his impact on the Catholic Church in the United States and in the world would be an underestimation."He's the closest thing in recent American church history to what you would think of

“The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil.”

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, who was convicted in 2012 on one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse.The Vatican announced the bishop's resignation April 21, specifying it was under the terms of the

The Catholic Church in South Africa has called on faith and other communities to use their influence to stop xenophobic violence and urged help for its victims.Attacks on foreign nationals have left at least seven people dead, more than 5,000 displaced, and shops looted and razed. They started in Du

Commemorating the second anniversary of the kidnapping of two Syrian bishops, the Greek Orthodox patriarch lamented the indifference of the international community about their fate."We hope that the bishops are alive, but unfortunately the world is silent and nobody has provided physical eviden

Pittsburg bishop calls stay “a welcome but interim step” in pursuit of religious freedom