By Catholic News Agency Staff [CNA – Aug. 4, 2020] – A Lebanese Catholic priest has asked believers around the world to pray for the people of his country, after two explosions in Beirut injured…
By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency [Vatican City – CNA] – Pope Francis said Aug. 5 that Catholic social teaching is fundamental to healing the issues faced by the world today. “Although the Church administers…
By Catholic News Agency Staff [Washington, DC – CNA] – Just days ahead of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, the president of the United States…
By UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency staff [News release – July 29, 2020] – Thousands of refugees and migrants are dying, while many are suffering extreme human rights abuses on irregular journeys between West and East…
By Agnieszka Ruck, The B.C. Catholic [Vancouver, B.C. – Canadian Catholic News] – For British Columbia film producer Natasha Howes, Fatima is more than just her latest screen project. The Kelowna-based filmmaker credits the miraculous…
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register Fr. David Reilander spent the early days of the COVD-19 shutdown alongside Catholic Missions in Canada (CMIC) financial and administration director Lina Kim diagnosing the potential impacts the pandemic…
By Andrew Ehrkamp, Grandin Media [Archdiocese of Edmonton – Canadian Catholic News] – The screens, small and big, will be turned off as this year’s Lac Ste Anne Pilgrimage comes to a close, but organizers…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register A nearly three-year process of investigation and review at the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace / Caritas Canada has resulted in a slimmed-down national council with four bishops…
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register [Toronto – Canadian Catholic News] – Setsuko Thurlow, 88, isn’t just disappointed. She’s choking back tears of frustration and grief as she describes the response she’s had from Prime Minister…
By Roma De Robertis, SCIC, Saint John, NB This year marks the sombre 75th anniversary of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945. Throughout the nuclear era, Canada has…