• Calls for UN-backed force in Ukraine’s crash site

  

  Jul 25, 2014 6:16

  (Vatican Radio) The Netherlands and Australia will ask United Nations backing for an international force to protect those...

   

• Catholic mask: Italian bishops try to reveal truth behind mafia’s faith

  

  Jul 25, 2014 5:21

  (CNS) The godfather who stands up for a child’s baptism one day and spends the rest of the week running a brutal crime...

   

• Sudanese Christian woman who faced death for faith meets Pope Francis

  

  Jul 25, 2014 5:09

  (LA Times) A Sudanese Christian woman who faced a death sentence for refusing to renounce her Christian faith flew to Italy...

   

• Vatican envoy address UN on situation in Palestine

  

  Jul 24, 2014 1:38

  (ICN) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, delivered a statement...

   

• US AIDS official warns against stigma against gays in Africa

  

  Jul 24, 2014 1:30

  (NCR) The U.S. government global AIDS coordinator praised faith-based groups for their action to combat AIDS but warned against...

   

• Jerusalem patriarch: Don’t punish all Gaza Palestinians because of Hamas

  

  Jul 24, 2014 1:19

  (CNS) — It is impossible for Israeli military to target Hamas missiles without hitting civilians in the Gaza Strip,...

   

• Expulsion of Christians a ‘crime against humanity,’ Mosul bishop says

  

  Jul 24, 2014 1:12

  (CNS) — Backed up by death threats and property seizures, the expulsion of the entire Christian community from Mosul...

   

• Thousands of children traumatised amid Central African Republic violence

  

  Jul 24, 2014 0:55

  (Catholic Herald UK) Among almost a million people displaced from their homes through conflict in the Central African Republic...

   

• Philippine Catholic bishops tell Aquino to uphold constitution

  

  Jul 24, 2014 0:49

  (Reuters) – Philippine Catholic bishops warned President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday to resist temptations to bully the...

   

• UNCTAD welcomes Vatican call for people to be at the heart of economic life

  

  Jul 23, 2014 8:52

  (UNCTAD) UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi was among signatories to a statement released by the Vatican on 21 July...