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News/International

Cardinal Dolan is among religious leaders who will read from Scripture at president-elect Donald Trump's presidential inauguration Jan. 20.

New York cardinal to participate in Trump inauguration

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WASHINGTON – New York's Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will take part in the upcoming presidential inauguration of Republican Donald Trump.

More than 3.2 million pilgrims visited and attended papal events, liturgies or prayer services at the Vatican in 2015, the Vatican said.

Vatican says 3.9 million pilgrims visited during Jubilee year

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VATICAN CITY – More than 3.9 million pilgrims visited and attended papal events, liturgies or prayer services during the Holy Year of Mercy in 2016, the Vatican said.

Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, prays in the Grotto during a Christmas Mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Christ's birth invites new thinking in troubled world, Latin patriarch says on Christmas Eve

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JERUSALEM – Christmas is the door that God keeps open as an invitation for people to enter into communion with him, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said in his Christmas Eve homily.

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, retired president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, during a late June meeting at the Vatican. Pope Francis has named Cardinal Rylko archpriest of the Rome Basilica of St. Mary Major, the Vatican announced. He replaces Cardinal Santos Abril Castello.

Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko named archpriest of Rome basilica

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VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Santos Abril Castello, the Vatican's former vice chamberlain, has retired as archpriest of the Rome Basilica of St. Mary Major, the Vatican announced.

Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, celebrates Christmas Mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

In Christmas messages, patriarchs call for peace amid Christian persecution

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BEIRUT – Lamenting the exodus of Christians from their ancestral homelands, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East pleaded for peace and security in their annual Christmas messages.

A woman in Bangui, Philippines, stands outside her house damaged by a fallen tree Oct. 20 after Typhoon Haima hit. Typhoon Nock-Ten hit the country Christmas Day.

Typhoon ravages Philippines; response slowed because of Christmas holiday

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MANILA, Philippines – The emergency response to a major typhoon that hit the northern Philippines Christmas Day and killed at least six people was slowed because some government and aid workers were on holiday leave, a Catholic Relief Services official said.

A Philippine air force trooper walks past voters lining up outside a precinct on election day in 2010 in Las Pinas.

Security boosted at church in Philippines after bombing targets police

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MANILA, Philippines – A southern Philippines church that was yards away from a police car bombing Christmas Eve was to have tighter security for the coming New Year's weekend, said the priest who was celebrating Mass when the explosion occurred.

Pope Francis greets the crowd after delivering his Christmas message and blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 25.

Pope asks people to offer love, tears, prayers for persecuted Christians

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VATICAN CITY – Despite increased persecution and attacks against Christians, the faithful must strengthen their courage and joyful desire to follow Christ no matter the cost, Pope Francis said.

Brazilian feminist Sara Winter, who used to work for the legalization of abortion, now says people should learn from religious women.

'I made a huge mistake' - Why one radical feminist changed her mind on abortion

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazilian feminist Sara Winter used to work to legalize abortion. She was one of the founders of a radical group that carries out offensive topless protests at churches.

Yan Xu, an artist from Wuhan, China, became Catholic after finding St. Joseph's Cathedral as a subject to sketch.

How a sketchbook led one Chinese woman to the Catholic faith

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ROME, Italy – Yan Xu is an artist from the central China city of Wuhan. What she drew one day would change her life.

Pope Pius XII had a secret plan to overthrow Germany's Adolf Hitler during World War Two.

The astonishing secret history of the Pope who fought Hitler

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WASHINGTON – Pope Pius XII's secret support for the attempted overthrow of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is the subject of a recent book that draws on wartime documents and interviews with the American intelligence agent who wrote them.

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