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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has initiated a new spate of persecution against house churches and underground Christian communities, True North reported Saturday.

ROME — Catholic politicians who publicly promote the practice of abortion on demand may not receive Holy Communion, Cardinal Raymond Burke declared this week.

Pope Francis told financiers Thursday that they must help calculate the “ecological debt” the global north owes to the global south.

Cardinal George Pell was unjustly tried for sex abuse as a “necessary big scalp for media delectation,” writes Jesuit Father Frank Brennan, a vocal critic of Pell’s.

Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako issued a bold proposal Monday for the establishment of a secular state in Iraq, separating religion from government “as the Christian West has done for a long time.”

British Catholic commentator Caroline Farrow has condemned London police for twice raiding a Polish church over Easter as a “chilling attack on freedom of religion”.

ROME — Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, said Sunday progressive legislation allowing abortion and euthanasia represents both a loss of faith and a “loss of reason.”

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari lashed out at the Catholic bishop of Sokoto Monday for criticizing his government’s response to Islamic terrorism in the country.

Christian nationalism does not exist except in the fertile imaginations of “Christian bashers,” Catholic League President Bill Donohue affirmed Monday.

The Irish bishops have sharply criticized the government for continuing to ban public worship, insisting that leaders fail to grasp the importance of religion for the people.

Pope Francis pointed to the Risen Christ on Easter Sunday as hope for all who are suffering from the coronavirus pandemic.

Parishioners have accused London police of trying to find lockdown rule-breaking during an Easter Sunday service to justify having shut down a Good Friday mass at a Polish church.

The preacher of the papal household railed against political divisions that “polarize Catholics” in his homily on Christ’s passion and death Friday.

Footage widely shared on social media shows London police interrupting a Good Friday service at a Polish church in London and threatening Christians with fines unless they dispersed.

U.S. and Mexican bishops living along the border issued a joint statement this week calling for “humanitarian solutions” to immigration.

ROME — Pope Francis said Wednesday that there are only two masters in the world: God and money, and every person must choose which of the two to serve.

ROME — Pope Francis said this week the “climate crisis” has its roots in the Industrial Revolution but for many years “it remained imperceptible except to a very few clairvoyants.”

Two left-wing groups called for the removal of the bishops’ pro-life committee chair after he admonished Biden for his pro-abortion policies.

Pope Francis called on Christians to pray for the victims of the Palm Sunday suicide bombing at a Christian church in Indonesia, which wounded at least 20 worshipers.

The Vatican extinguished the lights of the dome and the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica for an hour on Saturday night in commemoration of “Earth Hour.”

The president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said Friday that the Vatican will continue pursuing diplomatic relations with China following the renewal of a 2018 Sino-Vatican accord on the naming of bishops in China.

The former archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, noted in an interview Friday that religious liberty is in peril in the United States due to declining appreciation for the importance of faith.

The bishop of Innsbruck, Austria, apologized this week to those who feel offended by the Vatican’s declaration that Church ministers cannot bless same-sex couples.

ROME — Pope Francis has reaffirmed the Christian conviction that Jesus Christ is the sole redeemer of all mankind and does not share that role with the Virgin Mary or anyone else.

Pope Francis warned against the double temptation of living in the past or in the future, telling seminarians Monday the present is all we have.

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said this week that “God has brought us vaccines,” insisting that it is “vitally important that all of us receive the Covid Vaccine.”

ROME — Pope Francis condemned racism Sunday, comparing it to a mutating virus that hides beneath the surface where it always threatens to reappear.

Pope Francis said Monday that all children enjoy the same right to life regardless of their situation, in commemoration of World Down Syndrome Day.

ROME — Over 200 German-speaking Catholic theologians issued a statement Sunday rejecting the Vatican’s recent declaration prohibiting the blessing of same-sex unions.

ROME — Pope Francis called out the Mafia Sunday for enriching themselves through corruption during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Belgian bishop said this week he is “ashamed” of the Vatican’s ruling that clergy are not permitted to bless homosexual unions.

Unidentified gunmen abducted a Catholic priest in Nigeria’s Delta State this week, the Premium Times reported Thursday.

The archbishop of Aleppo lamented Wednesday that the Syrian people have been forgotten on the global scale and now feel completely on their own.

Pope Francis called for peace in Paraguay Wednesday as protests over surging coronavirus cases and political corruption have met with violence.

Pope Francis launched an appeal for an end to the armed conflict in Myanmar Wednesday, urging all parties to embrace a peaceful solution.

President Joe Biden is promoting ‘a grave moral evil’ through his support for abortion said the head of the U.S. Bishops office for pro-life activities this week.