A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse ...

The arrivals that transformed one congregation overnight stand to have long-lasting effects on mission in Europe.

In 2023 alone there were 2,444 incidents of violence against Christians across 35 European countries, including 1,000 cases ...

ROME – With European elections just three months away, the continent’s bishops have joined other Christian churches in lamenting that the Christian principles on which Europe was founded are either ...

Growing up in the UK, photographer Jamie McGregor Smith was familiar with traditional churches and their historic architecture. But in 2018, when McGregor Smith and his family moved to Vienna, Austria ...

Plans to expand Europe's largest Mormon temple have been unanimously approved by councillors in Lancashire, with space to ...

The Nairobi-based Vatican diplomat, who has also been representing the Holy Father in South Sudan, highlighted the need to seek God’s mercy as important and implored: “Let us confidently approach the ...

To that end, we all heard a speech by Thibault de Montbrial, a top French lawyer and law professor who is enmeshed in ...

These are obviously dark days for the Roman Catholic Church. For over a decade, the U.S. church has been assailed by abuse charges and devastated by the resulting litigation. The Vatican used to ...

The Church in Africa, which for many years was considered a missionary territory, has evolved and is growing “stronger” compared with the Church in Europe, which seems to have “weakened,” according to ...