The controversy surrounding a bishop in a diocese outside of Beijing illustrates the problems facing Chinese Catholic communities.
The U.K.’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien accuses the BBC of institutional bias against “Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.”
A spokesman for Cardinal Godfried Danneels said the transcript of a meeting in April with a victim of clerical sexual abuse has been taken out of context.
A visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to a church in China is not a sign that the secretive communist regime’s stance toward religion is softening.
“I am absolutely overwhelmed at the response of people for their church,” Davenport’s Bishop Martin J. Amos said.
As France continues its campaign to expel foreign-born Roma, Pope Benedict XVI called on Aug. 22 for greater acceptance of cultural differences and urged parents to teach their children “universal fraternity.”
The pastoral letter from Mexico's bishops addresses centuries-old divisions over ethnicity and the often strained relationship between church and state.
The 800-member Catholic community in a village in India is facing a “social boycott” for refusing to follow traditions to appease Hindus gods.
Remarks from a senior Paksitani official to mark the first anniversary of some of Pakistan’s worst anti-Christian violence.
New Orleans still struggles to rebuild and redefine itself five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.