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News/International

Indonesian police bomb squad members check a cathedral prior to the Christmas Eve Mass in 2016 in Bali. This year nearly 50,000 churches across Indonesia, including some previously attacked by terrorists, are to be guarded during the Christmas period.

Police, Muslim youth help guard churches at Christmas in Indonesia

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JAKARTA, Indonesia – More than 90,000 police and soldiers and a moderate Muslim youth group will help guard nearly 50,000 churches across Indonesia, including some previously attacked by terrorists, during the Christmas period.
Pope Francis meeting journalists aboard his flight from Rome to Dublin Aug. 25

Pope assigns Italian journalists to key posts in Vatican communications

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VATICAN – Pope Francis made new appointments to the Dicastery for Communication, naming Andrea Tornielli, an Italian journalist, as its "editorial director" and Andrea Monda, an Italian journalist and religion teacher, as editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Pope Francis meets representatives of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops at the Vatican Dec. 6. Pictured from left are Archbishop Richard Gagnon of Winnipeg, Manitoba, CCCB vice president; Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Quebec, CCCB president; and Msgr. Frank Leo Jr., general secretary of the conference.

Pope Francis asks bishops to meet with sex abuse victims before February meeting

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VATICAN – Before traveling to Rome for a major Vatican summit on the clerical sex abuse crisis and child protection, each participating bishop should meet with survivors of abuse, said the committee organizing the meeting.
Central American immigrants who had just arrived Nov. 13 to Tijuana, Mexico, wait in line for a meal at a migrant shelter.

Politicians blaming 'every evil' on migrants is unacceptable, Pope Francis says

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VATICAN – In today's climate of mistrust, rejection and nationalism, the world urgently needs peacemakers and politicians who protect and lovingly serve others, Pope Francis said in his annual message for the World Day of Peace Jan. 1.
Metropolitan Epiphanius, newly elected head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, conducts a Dec. 16 liturgy at St. Michael's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine.

Head of Ukrainian Catholics welcomes leader of new independent Orthodox church

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WARSAW, Poland – The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomed the election of a leader for the country's new independent Orthodox church.
COP24 President Michal Kurtyka speaks during a final session of the U.N. climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, Dec. 15.

Catholic groups raise concerns that UN climate rulebook lacks ambition

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WARSAW, Poland – Catholic participants and observers criticized a "lack of ambition" by government negotiators at a U.N. conference on climate change that ended Dec. 15 with agreement on a rulebook to implement the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Denis Costello started with CFS in 1992.

Catholic social agency needed now more than ever, retiring CFS director says

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If Denis Costello can take anything away from more than a quarter century with Catholic Family Services Toronto, it’s knowing that the need for the agency has never been greater. 

Pope Francis meets with a delegation from the International Commission Against the Death Penalty in the papal library of the apostolic palace Dec. 17.

Death penalty is inhuman, ignores mercy, Pope Francis says

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VATICAN – The death penalty is an inhumane form of punishment that ignores the primacy of mercy in the name of justice, Pope Francis said.
Justin Myers shows what the virtual tours of the Vatican Museums look like on an iPhone Dec. 13. Myers is an intern from Villanova University developing virtual tours of the Vatican Museums.

Vatican Museums to launch full virtual tour to improve accessibility

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VATICAN – In the technology support department at the Vatican Museums, Villanova University student Justin Myers is spending a semester creating virtual tours of galleries, part of a larger project to make the museums accessible to everyone.
Pope Francis is presented with a cake on the eve of his 82nd birthday during a Dec. 16 audience with children and families from the Santa Marta Dispensary, a Vatican charity that offers special help to mothers and children in need.

Pope Francis celebrates 82nd birthday with pediatric patients

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VATICAN – If the Holy Family lived in Rome and the baby Jesus had a cold or flu, Mary and Joseph certainly would bring him to the Vatican pediatric clinic for help, Pope Francis said.
Girls navigate a muddy street Dec. 5 as they make their way to school amid the rubble of the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. when Islamic State controlled the city,most children did not attend school.

Iraqi priest rebuilds church in war-torn Mosul, hopes returning Christians will follow

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MOSUL, Iraq (CNS) -- Christians are cautiously returning to Mosul, the once-bustling Iraqi city that for three years was the capital of the caliphate established by the Islamic State group.
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