A gunman targeted an eastern Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
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Both Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI preceded Pope Francis in beatifying or canonizing saints who were martyred during the Mexican Cristero War (1926-1929). The holiness of these saints was proven in the circumstances of a religious persecution.
With a little over a week left in France to welcome Pope Leo XIV, the country’s Catholics hope for a “breath” of “new life” into their Church from the pope.
So much has surfaced in recent decades about the need for healing within the Catholic Church and the world, at least when viewed through the eyes of Katharina Westerhorstmann, a professor of theology and medical ethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
All across the United States, pilgrims are preparing to travel to Seoul, South Korea, for Pope Leo XIV’s first World Youth Day as the successor of Peter Aug. 3-8, 2027.
Baptisms in the Catholic Church in Ireland have fallen by almost a third since 2015, with just one Irish diocese seeing any positive change, a new report shows.
Venezuelan Archbishop Jesús González de Zárate of Valencia had just finished celebrating Mass on the Feast of St. John the Baptist when the unthinkable happened.
Jordan announced the start of its preparations for the historic 2,000th anniversary of the Baptism of Jesus Christ in 2030 at the site where it took place at Bethany Beyond the Jordan, also known as Al-Maghtas.
Police in northern Nigeria are investigating the murder of a priest who was killed in an apparent roadside ambush.
Police are investigating several acts of vandalism and desecration at the famed village of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Marian apparitions are alleged to have occurred since 1981.