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FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
“Religious Freedom in the World 2018” found worsening conditions for religious freedom in 17 nations, citing attacks on Christians in India and Iraq.
People wait to see Pope Francis during his visit to the Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Aug. 26. The pope’s visit was still a major event in Ireland, but the repeal of the ban on blasphemy is one more sign of secularization. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
FaithShort Take
Kevin Hargaden
Before the vote, the Irish bishops called the law against blasphemy “largely obsolete,” and its demise makes for a more constructive social arrangement than Catholic hegemony.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five.
FaithNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether their religious freedom rights were violated by the construction and pending use of a natural gas pipeline through its land.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
Catholic clergy and laypeople have been expelled from Myanmar's northern Shan state by a China-backed ethnic minority army.
Signs of normal live are slowly returning to the ruins of Mosul. (Kevin Clarke)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sunni Muslims who have returned to the gray dusty ruin of West Mosul, Iraq, to start over, but most Christians are convinced that is impossible to ever return to live here.