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News/International

Opposition supporters hold letters to build a banner that reads "100 days" during a July 9 protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas.

Bishops say Venezuela aims to install 'military dictatorship'

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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's bishops said the country's government aims to install a "military dictatorship, socialist, Marxist and communist."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the plenary session of the the Group of 20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, July, 7. In a message sent to world leaders attending the meeting, Pope Francis said they must reflect on the repercussions their decisions may have on the entire global community, not just their own countries.

Economic solutions need broader vision, Pope tells G-20 leaders

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VATICAN CITY – World leaders attending the Group of 20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, must reflect on the repercussions their decisions may have on the entire global community and not just their own countries, Pope Francis said.

Charlie Gard, who was born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, is pictured in this undated family photo.

London hospital seeks another hearing in Charlie Gard case

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LONDON, England – Great Ormond Street Hospital in London is applying for a new hearing with the high court after new evidence suggests the critically ill baby could benefit from an experimental treatment.

Archbishop Anthony Apuron of Agana, Guam, is pictured in a 2012 photo at the Vatican.

Return of Guam archbishop accused of sex abuse would be disastrous: coadjutor

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AGANA, Guam – No matter the outcome of a Vatican trial against Guam's archbishop, Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana should not return to lead the archdiocese, said the archdiocese's coadjutor.

Confiscated bullets are seen Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in this 2012 file photo. After Father Luis Lopez Villa, 71, was murdered in suburban Mexico City, July 5, Auxiliary Bishop Alfonso Miranda Guardiola, secretary-general of the Mexican bishops' conference, told local media that priests are worried about the alarming rate of violence against them.

Priest, 71, murdered in Mexico by robbers

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MEXICO CITY – A 71-year-old priest was found murdered July 5 in suburban Mexico City, marking another attack on clergy in a country with a soaring homicide rate.

Ayub Mohamud, center, teaches a religious education class at Eastleigh High School in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 2, 2016. Mohamud is the Muslim spiritual affairs patron, but Eastleigh High does not employ a chaplain.

Kenya to add chaplains to public high schools to improve discipline

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NAIROBI, Kenya – Religious leaders in Kenya have welcomed a government move to recruit chaplains for all public high schools as a measure intended to improve discipline and staunch unrest.

At least eight priests in Ireland have committed suicide in the past 10 years in Ireland, according to recent reports given at meetings of the Association of Catholic Priests.

Rise in priest suicides prompts call for helpline in Ireland

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DUBLIN, Ireland – Besides a shortage of vocations, Irish priests are facing an even more harrowing kind of crisis.

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Norfolk, Virginia, was built in 1858 after a fire destroyed the original church.

Rebuilt from the ashes: The story of an American basilica

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NORFOLK, Virginia – An immigrant parish, burnt down, with only the crucifix remaining. A parish rebuilt, transformed and a key part in giving back to the community. In a sense, one parish’s story of struggle, pressure and rebirth is metaphor for the American Catholic experience.

Demonstrators rally outside the federal court in Detroit June 21 before a hearing to consider a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqi nationals facing deportation.

Avoiding deportation: Shifting U.S. policies leave many on tenterhooks

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WASHINGTON – Immigrants facing deportation have won the occasional judicial victory, but getting a judge to hear their case poses the bigger problem in immigrants' desperate attempt to stay in the United States.

An immigrant holds a U.S. flag during a naturalization ceremony in New York City June 30.

As partial travel ban kicks in, agencies worry about refugees in limbo

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WASHINGTON – Agencies and organizations that help refugees start new lives in the U.S. worry about the fate that awaits migrants in transit as well as those who will not be allowed into the country as the partial ban that the U.S. Supreme Court set in motion with its late June ruling goes into effect in early July.

In a joint declaration released July 6, U.S. and European Catholic bishops called for all nations to develop a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons.

U.S., European bishops call for a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons

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WASHINGTON – Agencies of the U.S. and European Catholic bishops have called for all nations to develop a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons from their military arsenals.

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