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News/International

During the reinterment ceremony of King Richard III, the coffin goes around the center of Leicester. Here, the funeral procession goes past the Clocktower.

Catholics and Anglicans prepare ecumenical burial fit for a king

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CANTERBURY, England - Tens of thousands of people in Leicester — England’s most religiously diverse city — are getting ready to honour the memory of a long-despised English king with a ceremony that testifies to the already warm relationship between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama presents relief material to internally displaced persons in Jos, Nigeria, Jan. 20. Many now flee to neighboring Cameroon to escape Boko Haram attacks.

Nigerian bishops visit refugees in Cameroon who fled Boko Haram

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LAGOS, Nigeria - A delegation representing Catholic organizations in Nigeria offered words of comfort and pledged help for Nigerian refugees who fled to neighbouring Cameroon because of a violent insurgency.

Students at St. Martin de Porres School in Hinche, Haiti, are seen Feb. 13 during Carnival activities at the school.

Church leaders, agencies see education as key to Haiti's future

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Bishop Launay Saturne of Jacmel has a simple vision that he believes could change the future of Haiti.

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson’s 1988 excommunication from the Catholic church. On Mar. 19, 2015, Williamson was excommunicated automatically for ordaining a bishop without papal approval, Fr. Jean-Michel Faure, who was also excommunicated. In this 2008 photo, Williamson is seen in a church in Stockholm, Sweden.

SSPX bishop excommunicated — again — for illicit ordination

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A traditionalist bishop who has denied the Holocaust has been automatically excommunicated along with the priest he illicitly ordained a bishop.

A man carries the body of a child after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus Feb. 5.

Patriarch rejects calls for outside military intervention in Syria

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VATICAN CITY - The head of the Melkite Catholic Church rejected outright all calls for an international military intervention in Syria and urged Pope Francis and all Christian churches to "promote a concrete and realistic road map" to peace in the beleaguered nation.

A student tapes her mouth shut during a March 16 candlelight vigil for an elderly nun who was raped in Ranaghat, India.

Blind students among thousands protesting rape of elderly nun in India

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BHUBANESWAR, India - Students at a Hindu-run school for the blind joined a nationwide outcry over the gang rape of a 74-year-old Catholic nun.

Syrian children play at a makeshift settlement in Bar Elias, Lebanon, March 15, 2015.

Syrian children risk becoming 'lost generation,' Vatican official says to United Nations

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VATICAN CITY - Without family, a legal identity and adequate education, children uprooted by the ongoing violence in Syria and the Middle East "are at risk of becoming a lost generation," said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.

Bomb kills 21 in Jos, Nigeria, Feb. 26.

Create united front against violence, Pope tells Nigeria's bishops

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VATICAN CITY - As the people of Nigeria prepared for general elections, Pope Francis wrote to the nations' bishops urging efforts to build up a "culture of encounter" that would create a united front against Boko Haram terrorists and ethnic tensions.

Elaine Corrigna of Achill Island, Ireland, smiles before the start of the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York March 17, 2009.

Debate over gays in St. Patrick’s parades roils Irish on big day

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NEW YORK - St. Patrick’s Day is associated as much with Roman Catholicism as it is with Irish-Americans, but this year some of the faithful aren’t happy with the inclusion of gays and lesbians marching under their own banner for the first time in parades in Boston and New York.

Displaced Iraqi Christians who fled from Islamic State militants in Mosul pray at a school acting as a refugee camp in Irbil, Iraq, Sept. 6. Irbil now hosts more than 100,000 displaced Christians and other minorities. Some Christians who have fled Iraq say they do not want to return

Bishops urge Arab, Muslim countries to help preserve Christian presence

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BEIRUT - Maronite Catholic bishops urged Arab and Muslim countries to combat terrorism in order to preserve the Christian presence in the Middle East.

Pakistani Christians protest March 16 in the aftermath of two suicide attacks that targeted two churches in Lahore.

Attack in Pakistan part of wave of anti-Christian violence, Pope says

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VATICAN CITY - Condemning deadly terrorist attacks against a Catholic and an Anglican church in Pakistan, Pope Francis said "the world is trying to hide" a wave of anti-Christian persecution in various parts of the globe.

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