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News/International

Then-Archbishop Oscar Romero is pictured in an undated photo in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Judge orders arrest of longtime suspect in St. Romero's 1980 assassination

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WASHINGTON – Days after the Catholic Church declared Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero a saint, a judge in El Salvador issued a capture order for a former military captain suspected of killing the religious leader in 1980 as he celebrated Mass.
Indonesian synod observer Anastasia Indrawan talks with an unidentified synod observer before a session of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican Oct. 23.

Final synod document to focus on all young adults, not just in the West, participants say

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VATICAN – The synod's final document will seek to address issues concerning all young people and not just those issues facing young men and women living in Western countries, said members participating in the Synod of Bishops.
Rape in Nepal has increased dramatically in the last decade. The Nepali Times stated that there were 1,131 reported rapes in 2016-2017, a nearly 300 percent increase from the fewer that 400 accounts of reported rape in 2008.

Nepal bans pornography to curb high rate of sex assault

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KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal has introduced a ban on pornography as part of a government initiative to stem the country’s high rate of sexual assault.
Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, India, is led away for questioning by police Sept. 21 on the outskirts of Cochin. A state court in southern India has denied bail to Bishop Mulakkal who is accused of raping a nun on grounds that he could influence witnesses if released from jail.

Priest and key witness in India's nun rape case found dead

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KOCHI, India – A priest who had been a key witness in the charge of rape against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jullundur died Monday, prompting a police investigation into his death.
Chilean clerical sex abuse survivors Juan Carlos Cruz, James Hamilton and Jose Andres Murillo attend a news conference at the Foreign Press Association building in Rome May 2.

No verdict from Chilean court in survivors' sex abuse lawsuit against archdiocese

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VATICAN – Survivors of abuse in Chile believed they had won a major victory when they heard a Chilean court recognized that the Archdiocese of Santiago prevented a thorough investigation into sexual abuses committed by a former priest, Fernando Karadima.
Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl puts on his vestments as he prepares to take possession of Rome's Basilica of St. Peter in Chains in 2011. Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Wuerl as archbishop of Washington but did not name a successor.

District of Columbia announces hotline to report sex abuse by clergy

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced Oct. 22 the launch of a hotline and email address to report child sexual abuse by clergy.
In one of Arturo Mari's famous photos, he shows Pope John Paul II celebrating his final international World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002.

'John Paul II guided me through my youth', synod bishop says

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VATICAN – John Paul II spent much of his papacy speaking to youth. Now some of those youth are bishops.
Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City is seen at the Vatican in this 2013 file photo.

Cardinal Rivera's home attacked in Mexico City, security guard found dead

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MEXICO CITY – An auxiliary police officer was shot dead at the Mexico City home of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera in what authorities described as an unsuccessful attempt at robbing the retired churchman.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, and other participants in the "Share the Journey" walk arrive near the Vatican Oct. 21. The campaign and 1.5-mile walk were organized by Caritas Internationalis to call attention to the plight of migrants and refugees.

Synod members walk to 'share the journey' with migrants, refugees

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VATICAN – Honduran Bishop Jose Antonio Canales of Danli said that, given what is going on in his country and throughout Central America, he had to walk in the "Share the Journey" campaign of Caritas Internationalis.
Yadira Vieyra, center, a synod delegate who works with migrant families in Chicago, attends a session of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican Oct. 11.

Church's 'beautiful, yet challenging' stance on sexuality welcomes all, calls for conversion, Synod groups say

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VATICAN – No one is excluded from the love of God or from being welcomed into the Catholic Church, but God's love and the church's welcome also come with a call to conversion, said the English-language groups at the Synod of Bishops.
Villagers carry their belongings as they walk through mud near the ruins of houses after an earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

D&P scrambles to help earthquake relief in Haiti and Indonesia

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Earthquakes in Indonesia and Haiti have left long-time Development and Peace partners in those countries reaching out for help so they can in turn help struggling peasants and fishing families surrounding them.

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