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News/International

Nicolas Maduro is seen in La Guaira, Venezuela, Sept. 8. Juan Guaido declared himself the legitimate Venezuelan president during a news conference in Caracas Jan. 25, 2019.

Maduro's call for Vatican mediation rejected by Venezuelan cardinal

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MERIDA, Venezuela – The Archbishop of Merida has ruled out Vatican mediation of the Venezuelan crisis after president Nicolas Maduro made public a letter to Pope Francis requesting intervention.
Cardinal Muller released a "Manifesto of Faith" Feb. 8 in which he affirms basic teachings of the church "in the face of growing confusion about the doctrine of the faith." While the document has been viewed as a correction of Pope Francis' teachings, it does not specifically cite the Pope.

Cardinal Müller warns against being silent, in error about Catholic faith in new manifesto

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VATICAN – To keep silent about the truths of the Catholic faith or to teach the contrary is a form of religious deception that comes from the anti-Christ, said Cardinal Gerhard Muller.
Anti-natalist in India wants to sue parents for giving birth to him

Anti-natalist in India wants to sue parents for giving birth to him

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MUMBAI, India – An Indian businessman has expressed his intention to sue his parents for giving him life without his permission.
Iran has 800,000 to a million converts to Christianity, who meet secretly in a fast-growing house church network under the threat of arrest and imprisonment, Kiaa Aalipour says.

Journalist highlights plight of Christian converts in Iran

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OTTAWA – An increase in Muslims converting to Christianity has prompted a crackdown by Iran’s theocratic government, says Kiaa Aalipour a representative of Article18, a London-based NGO supporting persecuted Christians in Iran.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari attends a campaign rally in Taraba Feb. 7, 2019, ahead of the presidential elections. Nigerian bishops are urging voters to reflect, and pray ahead of the country's Feb. 16 elections.

Nigerian bishops urge voters to pray, fast ahead of country's elections

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LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria's Catholic bishops called on voters to prepare to cast their ballots in upcoming elections by reflecting, fasting and praying on how best the country's future can be served.
U.S. President Donald Trump joins Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Chris Coons, D-Del., in prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington Feb. 7, 2019.

Trump protects rights of faith-based adoption agencies at prayer breakfast

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WASHINGTON – Touting efforts to protect religious freedom, President Donald Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that his administration would defend the right of faith-based adoption agencies to place children in families based on firmly held religious beliefs.
An activist prays outside an abortion clinic in London March 14, 2012. A council in London could become the second local authority in the U.K. to approve an exclusion zone around an abortion clinic.

London council committee allows 'buffer zone' around abortion clinic

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LONDON – A council in London could become the second local authority in the U.K. to approve an exclusion zone around an abortion clinic.
Migrants, intercepted off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, walk after disembarking from a rescue boat Jan. 15, 2019, at the port of Malaga, Spain. Some 170 migrants were believed to have drowned in the sea in two separate shipwrecks in mid-January. "They were seeking a future" and "perhaps were victims of human trafficking," Pope Francis said during his Angelus prayer Jan. 20.

To ignore human trafficking is to be complicit, Pope Francis says

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VATICAN – To be indifferent to or ignore human trafficking and modern-day slavery would be to become an accomplice to those crimes, Pope Francis said.
02.07.2019 Pope Francis and Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt's al-Azhar mosque and university, sign documents during an interreligious meeting at the Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 4, 2019. The pope and Sheik el-Tayeb stepped into a theological debate on the will of God toward religions when they signed a document on "human fraternity" and improving Christian-Muslim relations.

Does God want religious diversity? Abu Dhabi text signed by Pope raises questions

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VATICAN – That many religions exist in the world is a fact, but what that plurality communicates to believers about God is a question that theologians are still discussing.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence applauds and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., looks on as President Donald Trump delivers his second State of the Union address Feb. 5, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington. During his speech Trump urged Congress to pass legislation that bans late-term abortion.

Kansas archbishop urges U.S. senate to OK bill to protect babies who survive abortion

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WASHINGTON – It is "unconscionable" that the U.S. Senate failed to "unanimously declare to the nation that infanticide is objectively wrong," said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis and Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt's al-Azhar mosque and university, sign documents during an interreligious meeting at the Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 4, 2019.

Respect, dialogue key for peace between Christians, Muslims, Pope says

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VATICAN – Pope Francis said his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, while brief, was a new page in relations between Christians and Muslims at a time when conflict and violence threaten the goal of lasting peace.
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