• World mourns South Africa’s first black president

  

  Dec 6, 2013 13:23

  (CNN) South Africans mourned Friday the death of the man who led the fight to end the system of apartheid here and then went...

   

• Catholics around the world mourn Nelson Mandela

  

  Dec 6, 2013 13:20

  (Catholic Herald) Catholics around the world are mourning Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. In a telegram to Jacob Zuma,...

   

• South African cardinal says iconic Mandela had touch of humanity

  

  Dec 6, 2013 13:17

  (CNS) Nelson Mandela, who led the struggle to replace South Africa’s apartheid regime with a multiracial democracy,...

   

• Archbishop: Mexican cartel threatened Catholic seminary

  

  Dec 5, 2013 10:42

  (CNN) — The threatening calls reportedly came one after the other to Mexico’s main Catholic seminary. Callers,...

   

• Pope Francis calls on Catholics to pray for nuns kidnapped in Syria

  

  Dec 5, 2013 10:25

  (Catholic Herald UK) Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to pray for five Orthodox nuns who were kidnapped in Syria...

   

• CSW urges David Cameron to raise religious freedom during China visit

  

  Dec 3, 2013 1:37

  (ICN) Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has written to British Prime Minister David Cameron, urging him to ensure that...

   

• New data shows Catholic schools in England serve more disadvantaged pupils

  

  Dec 3, 2013 1:17

  (ICN) The Catholic Education Service has today released its annual Digest of 2013 Census Data for Schools and Colleges in...

   

• German bishops eye guidelines for divorced Catholics to take Communion

  

  Dec 3, 2013 0:03

  (CNS) – Church officials in Germany defended plans by the country’s bishops’ conference to allow some divorced...

   

• Filipino bishop lambasts corrupt Catholics

  

  Dec 2, 2013 4:13

  (UCA News) The new head of the Catholic bishops’ conference says Church leaders in the Philippines have failed to evangelize...

   

• Argentina weighs putting Pope Francis’ face on a coin

  

  Nov 29, 2013 5:06

  (CNN) Just a few days after Pope Francis decried capitalism, Argentine lawmakers weighed a new way to honor him: putting...