News/International
Haiti violence, lawlessness forces longtime U.S. missionary priest to evacuate
By Gina Christian, OSV NewsAs Haiti's capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate -- while Haitian Catholics in the U.S. are doubling down on prayer for their troubled homeland.
D&P aid enables Haitian partners’ work
By Susan Korah, Ottawa Correspondent“Just going to work is an act of bravery. Our partners on the ground in Haiti are working in a very difficult context,” Mary Durran, the Montreal-based program officer responsible for Latin America (including Haiti) for the Catholic charity Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, told The Catholic Register. “Yet they continue to be the advocates of the poorest people suffering violence and hunger, and inform international organizations such as ours.”
Calm urged after Australian bishop stabbed
By Marilyn Rodrigues, OSV NewsAustralian religious and political leaders have called for calm and unity after the attempted murder of an Assyrian Orthodox clergyman at his church’s altar in Sydney’s western suburbs, just days after a separate knife attack claimed six lives in Sydney’s Bondi Junction mall.
Israel, Iran escalation must be prevented
By Kate Scanlon, OSV NewsAs the White House responds to Iran’s attack against Israel, Catholic experts said U.S. officials should seek to prevent further escalation in the region.
Israel must prevail... or else
By Peter StocklandA former Israeli prime minister is issuing a stark warning to Canadians that Hamas-style terror tactics will spread to North America unless the Jewish State achieves its goals in Gaza.
Nigerian seminary defies global trend
By Ngala Killian Chimton, OSV NewsThe Bigard Memorial Seminary in Enugu, Nigeria, is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2024. Officials say the sheer statistics warrant a big celebration: The institution has 780 clerics — a number not seen in years in seminaries across Europe and the Americas.
Nigerian Christians are one of the most persecuted religious groups in the world, but the rector of the seminary, Fr. Albert U. Ikpenwa, told OSV News the growth in vocations and of the Church in Nigeria is a function of positive Christian teachings.
Court condemns Cardinal Marc Ouellet for 'infamous' dismissal of French nun
By François Gloutnay, OSV NewsA civil court in Lorient in France's Brittany region has ruled that a French religious congregation, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet -- a former high-ranking Vatican official -- and two Vatican-appointed investigators committed "serious misconduct" in expelling Sabine Baudin de la Valette, whose religious name was Sister Marie Ferréol, from her own community "without cause" after 34 years of consecrated life.
Amid war, Cardinal Dolan to make pastoral visit to Israel, Palestine
By OSV NewsCardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has announced he will travel to Israel and Palestine amid a war now in its seventh month.
Pope Francis 'deeply saddened' after powerful 7.4 magnitude quake strikes Taiwan
By Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV NewsPope Francis expressed his condolences to the people of Taiwan after a powerful earthquake struck the island nation's eastern shore.
Nicaragua cracks down on church during Holy Week
By OSV NewsCatholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited public exhibitions of faith -- such as processions and reenactments of the passion of Christ -- as it continued exercising control over religious activities in what’s becoming an increasingly totalitarian country.
Pope Francis says he was 'used' in 2005 conclave: Ratzinger 'was my candidate'
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News ServicePope Francis voted for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in the 2005 conclave that followed the death of St. John Paul II.