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News/International

Demonstrators take part in a protest on Sept. 24, 2016, in Dublin to urge the Irish government to repeal the eighth amendment to the constitution, which enforces strict limitations to a woman's right to an abortion.

As Catholic influence in Ireland wanes, support for legalizing abortion rises

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DUBLIN – Bronagh Matthews, an office manager in her 30s, lives on the rural edge of North County Dublin. She attended an all-girls Catholic high school and a Catholic college and still identifies as Roman Catholic.

A girl looks at a Bible during Mass in 2016 at a Beijing cathedral. As young people move to cities, Catholic grandparents in rural areas are passing on the faith to their grandchildren.

Outside cities, Chinese grandparents pass on faith to their grandchildren

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HONG KONG – Every evening, no matter how busy or tired she may be, Yiu reads the Bible at home to her 7-year-old granddaughter. Sometimes, parishioners from Changzhi Diocese in north-central China's Shanxi province, come and join her, reports ucanews.com.

A volunteer works with a refugee from Afghanistan to help her learn how to use a sewing machine during an April 27 training session at a Catholic Charities program in Fredericksburg, Va.

Afghan women left everything behind – except their sewing skills

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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Before Mahnaz left Afghanistan with her husband and four sons, she carefully packed beautiful black, red and white curtains in the few suitcases she could bring along to her new life in a country 7,000 miles away.

Donald Trump will be meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican May 24 as part of his first foreign trip as U.S. President.

Search for common ground will be key to Pope's meeting with Trump

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VATICAN CITY – Despite a few pointed comments in the past and fundamental differences on issues such as immigration, economic policy, military spending and climate change, sparks are not expected to fly May 24 when Pope Francis welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump to the Vatican.

U.S. President Donald Trump signs a revised executive order for a U.S. travel ban March 6 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. The executive order temporarily bans refugees from certain majority-Muslim countries, and now excludes Iraq.

Another court weighs the future of Trump travel ban

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WASHINGTON – The comments made during and after a contentious campaign came back to haunt President Donald Trump's executive order, adding to his troubles in May, as a group of judges in Seattle weighed the future of his troubled travel ban.

The primary construction of Cuba's first Catholic Church in 60 years is almost complete. Is is being funded by St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Tampa, Florida.

Cuba’s first Catholic Church in 60 years will soon be complete

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TAMPA, Florida – Funded by a parish in Florida, a new Catholic church is being built in Cuba and is the first the island nation has seen in 60 years.

Dr. Leo Samson, 96, is seen serving Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Ida Grove, Iowa, May 5.

Iowan man to celebrate two milestones: turning 97, 91st year as altar 'boy'

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IDA GROVE, Iowa – Leo "Doc" Samson will note two anniversaries June 2.

The murder case of Blessed Oscar Romero was reopened May 18, nearly 40 years after the Archbishop of San Salvador was killed.

Murder case of Blessed Oscar Romero has been reopened

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A nearly 40 year-old murder case was reopened this week to properly prosecute the suspected killer behind the Salvadorian archbishop's martyrdom.

A U.N. peacekeeping soldier guards women fleeing Zike, Central African Republic, as they arrive April 26 in the village of Bambara.

After clashes, Central African cardinal urges more efforts toward peace

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OXFORD, England – A cardinal in Central African Republic called on international peacekeepers to act more effectively, after he helped end an anti-Muslim flare-up in the southeastern city of Bangassou.

Severe food shortage as a result of Venezuela's economic crisis has brought the country's child malnutrition level to a humanitarian crisis level, says the local chapter of Caritas Internationalis.

Child malnutrition in Venezuela at humanitarian crisis level, Caritas says

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VATICAN CITY – With soaring food prices and a free-falling economy, child malnutrition in Venezuela has crossed the threshold of a humanitarian crisis, the local chapter of Caritas Internationalis said.

Justice and Peace Commission of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land said May 14 that the Church cannot will speak out against injustice in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Church cannot ignore injustice in Israel-Palestine conflict, bishops say

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WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church will speak out against injustice and avoid any attempt to normalize the “festering wound” of the Israeli-Palestinian situation, a commission from the region’s leading Catholic bishops has said.

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