The only water available to the people in the mountain region of Santa Maria in Jalapa, Guatemala, was bacteria-infested. Women and girls would spend as much as eight hours per day hauling the water for […]
WASHINGTON—The request for baby items headed to the Holy Land couldn’t be more appropriate: “swaddling clothes needed.” The Gospel of Luke mentions, after all, that Mary wrapped the baby Jesus in “swaddling clothes and laid […]
WASHINGTON—From Chile to Haiti to Hong Kong, protests appear to be sweeping the globe. Although sparked by different events, they also reflect a common frustration with economic inequality and corrupt governments, experts say. “We seem […]
VATICAN CITY—Despite growing recognition of climate change as a legitimate and looming threat, current commitments to mitigate its effects and alter human behavior fall short of those needed to resolve the crisis in time, Pope […]
VATICAN CITY—As Advent approached, Pope Francis gave a small fragment of Jesus’ crib back to Catholics in the Holy Land. In Bethelehem, West Bank, Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh of St. Catherine Church welcomed the relic’s […]
VATICAN CITY—The dignity and rights of people with disabilities are increasingly threatened by a society that discriminates and views them as a burden, Pope Francis said. In a letter marking the U.N.’s International Day of […]
VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of Bishop Ovide Charlebois — a Canadian Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate who ministered to First Nations peoples and migrant workers scattered throughout the vast, lake-covered province of […]
JERUSALEM—Two unearthed Byzantine church complexes shed light on the tradition of Christian pilgrimage in the Holy Land. The churches, according to Catholic archaeological scholars in Jerusalem, were most likely sites of veneration for local Christians […]
BANGKOK—Calling migration “one of the principal moral issues” facing humanity today, Pope Francis thanked the government and people of Thailand for the way they’ve welcomed migrants and refugees, but he urged greater efforts to protect […]
VATICAN CITY—On the World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis said that the poor and most vulnerable can be left behind in the frenetic haste and self-centeredness of the modern world. “How beautiful it would […]
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