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News/International

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks down as he leaves a campaign event in Concord, North Carolina on March 7, 2016.

Dear Catholics: Stop Trump, says National Review appeal

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In an appeal to the faithful, 40 conservative Catholic leaders have denounced GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as a demagogue and danger to the nation and the Republican Party.

Ukrainian women hold peace placards near a military base in Ukraine's Crimea region in this March 4, 2014 file photo.

Pope pays homage to fidelity of Ukrainian Catholics, prays for peace

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VATICAN CITY - Paying homage to the suffering and martyrdom of Ukrainian Catholics who refused to give up their fidelity to the pope despite harsh Soviet repression, Pope Francis also paid tribute to the Eastern Catholics' efforts today to alleviate the suffering of those impacted by the war in Eastern Ukraine.

Pope Francis passes an image of Mother Teresa of Calcutta as he arrives to celebrate Mass in Mother Teresa Square in Tirana, Albania, in this Sept. 21, 2014 file photo. The Pope has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa, paving the way for her canonization in 2016.

Vatican announces consistory to approve canonization of Mother Teresa

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will preside over a consistory to approve the canonization of five men and women, including Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, the Vatican announced.

A Bible you can wear on your heart, sleeve or lapel

A Bible you can wear on your heart, sleeve or lapel

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JERUSALEM - Nanotechnology has been revolutionizing science, medicine and industry for decades, but it took until now for someone to turn it into a religious fashion statement.

Kurdish women mourn during a funeral ceremony in Sirnak, Turkey, Jan. 10. The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee March 2 unanimously passes two bipartisan measures to address war crimes and genocide in Middle East.

Committee calls attacks on Christians, others in Middle East 'genocide'

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee March 2 unanimously passed a bipartisan measure condemning as genocide the killing of Christians, Yezidis and other ethnic and religious minorities by Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

Members of the Missionaries of Charity appear in this picture from 2010. Four Missionaries of Charity nuns were among the 16 slain by gunmen who attacked a Church-run retirement home in Yemen.

Four Missionaries of Charity among 16 slain in Yemen by gunmen

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ROME - Four nuns from the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta are reportedly among 16 killed by gunmen who attacked a Church-run retirement home in Yemen, the latest attack on Christians in the increasingly lawless country.

Anthony Foster holds a picture of his daughters Katie and Emma, who were raped by a priest in Melbourne, Australia, as he speaks with media in front of the Hotel Quirinale in Rome March 3. Foster was at the hotel as Australian Cardinal George Pell was testifying via video link from the hotel to Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.

Australian cardinal promises victims to support healing, protection

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ROME - Australian Cardinal George Pell promised to work with a group of abuse survivors to help prevent suicide among victims and support healing and protection programs.

Victims and relatives of children who claim they were sexually abused by the Catholic Church hold placards as they stand outside the venue for Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney Feb. 29.

Cardinal says he reported complaints, but did not know of sex abuse

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SYDNEY - For a third consecutive day, a top Vatican official gave testimony to an Australian commission about what he knew of the Church's reassignment of abusive priests.

David Ridsdale, who was sexually abused by his uncle Father Gerald Ridsdale, shows a yellow ribbon as he speaks with media in front of the Hotel Quirinale in Rome Feb. 28. Australian Cardinal George Pell is testifying via video link from the hotel to Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney.

Cardinal: Bishop committed 'gross deception' about Australian pedophile

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SYDNEY - When former Bishop Ronald Mulkearns of Ballarat moved a pedophile priest from parish to parish in the early 1970s without divulging the underlying reasons for the moves, the appointments implied the bishop had confidence in the priest, Cardinal George Pell told Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Men in Accra, Ghana, look at a newspaper stand in this Dec. 8, 2012, file photo. West African bishops urge Catholics to defend traditional marriage as influences from other nations are offered as keys to development.

West African bishops urge Catholics to defend traditional marriage, family

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ACCRA, Ghana - The bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa called on Catholics to defend traditional marriage and the family as they met in the Ghanaian capital.

Police forces clash with protesters at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, in this Oct. 23, 2015, file photo.

South African archbishop: University violence is reaction to inequality

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Violence and vandalism at South African universities are reactions to inequality in the country, said Archbishop William Slattery of Pretoria, spokesman for the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference.

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