News from outside of Canada.
May 13, 2024
The largest Catholic health care system in the U.S. reported it experienced what it called a "cybersecurity incident" May 8, resulting in "a disruption to clinical operations." The cyberattack is part of a rising and dangerous criminal trend targeting the entire health care sector.
May 10, 2024
When thousands gather this summer in Indianapolis for the 10th National Eucharistic Congress, they’ll be able to view the creation of another in the long line of Christian art by renowned Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz.
May 2, 2024
The Louisiana State Police and the FBI are investigating whether Archdiocese of New Orleans officials -- including archbishops -- covered up child sex trafficking by clergy over several decades.
Unity within Christian communities and the unity of all the churches will grow only as believers draw closer to Jesus and learn to be honest in examining if they are listening to the Holy Spirit or to their own preferences, Pope Francis told leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Many people in the West Bank have been left without work but the only pediatric hospital in the area gives them a sense of hope and security.
May 1, 2024
Sudden peace negotiations or an intervention by the United States will not deliver Israelis and Palestinians from the suffering caused by the war in Gaza, a Jerusalem-based cardinal said.
As April flowers burst into bloom on the mountain slopes and in the valleys Nagorno Karabakh, there are almost no Armenians there to celebrate the arrival of spring in their ancient homeland.
Catholics in the United Kingdom that are part of the personal ordinariate have welcomed Pope Francis' appointment of their first bishop -- and the first ordinariate bishop to hail from their Anglican heritage.
April 30, 2024
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church recently met with Ukrainian military officials to discuss a range of issues, including Russia's detention of two Ukrainian Catholic priests whose fate remains unknown.
April 29, 2024
Amid severe floods, a leading Catholic archbishop in Kenya appealed for humanitarian support to aid thousands of displaced people, as he expressed the church's closeness to the affected populations.