The Council of Heads of Churches in Jordan welcomed the Cabinet’s approval of a 2026 bill amending the Christian Denominations Councils Law and its referral to Parliament to complete the constitutional process. The proposed changes are expected to allow Christians to address a range of personal status matters under their churches’ laws, including marriage, divorce,…
The number of Catholic priests worldwide has risen again after five years of no growth, according to statistics published by the Vatican agency Fides ahead of the 100th World Mission Sunday, which was celebrated on Sunday, October 18. According to the Fides report, the total number of priests rose from 406,996 to 407,421, representing an…
A British woman who has been arrested multiple times for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic, and is now facing new charges, has said that people from the pro-life movement face harsher policing than other groups. Speaking to Crux Now, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, co-director of March for Life UK, said that she and other volunteers…
Catholic leaders in Nigeria‘s Diocese of Otukpo are appealing for prayers following the kidnapping of Fr John Inalegwu Otache, pastor of St Margaret Parish in Ajegbe–Awume. Fr Otache was abducted October 13 while returning home from the town of Otukpo in Benue State after reportedly encountering armed kidnappers on a local road. “It is with…
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have been attacking Palestinians in multiple villages, including the Christian town of Taybeh. Israel has imposed new rules on the olive harvest this year, prohibiting Palestinians from working in what’s known as Area C, which is under Israeli security control and encompasses the majority of the territory’s agricultural…
Mercy Sister in Nairobi says hunger is the worst in 40 years Children are being born disabled in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum because their mothers are going hungry during pregnancy, an Irish Mercy Sister has warned, as cuts to international aid push the community into its worst crisis in four decades. Sr Mary Killeen, who…
Delegates representing the Church in Ireland gathered to consider and vote on 35 proposals designed to guide the future of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The National Synod Assembly took place at the City North Hotel, Gormanston, Co. Meath, on Saturday, October 17, with over 300 nominated lay, clerical and religious voting representatives. Speaking to…
Fr Willie Doyle SJ offers young men a model of “healthy forms of masculinity”, Bishop Tom Deenihan has said, as the World War I chaplain’s cause for canonisation heads to Rome. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after the closing of the diocesan inquiry in The Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar on Sunday, the…
The Church in Ireland has become “much more open to accepting that we’re not a perfect Church”, the Primate of All Ireland has said, crediting Amoris Laetitia with helping the Church to accept the brokenness and fragility of marriage. Speaking to The Irish Catholic at the close of a week-long Vatican summit marking ten years since the exhortation, Archbishop…
More than 3,000 relics of saints and martyrs will go on public display at a Kilkenny church on All Saints’ Day, in an event inviting visitors to reflect on the lives of those who have gone before them in faith. St Canice’s Parish will make the collection available for veneration during and after its 11:30am…
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