International News

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Final synod document to focus on all young adults, not just in the West, participants say

October 23, 2018

VATICAN – The synod's final document will seek to address issues concerning all young people and not just those issues facing young men and women living in Western countries, said members participating in the Synod of Bishops.

Nepal bans pornography to curb high rate of sex assault

October 23, 2018

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal has introduced a ban on pornography as part of a government initiative to stem the country’s high rate of sexual assault.

Priest and key witness in India's nun rape case found dead

October 23, 2018

KOCHI, India – A priest who had been a key witness in the charge of rape against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jullundur died Monday, prompting a police investigation into his death.

No verdict from Chilean court in survivors' sex abuse lawsuit against archdiocese

October 23, 2018

VATICAN – Survivors of abuse in Chile believed they had won a major victory when they heard a Chilean court recognized that the Archdiocese of Santiago prevented a thorough investigation into sexual abuses committed by a former priest, Fernando Karadima.

District of Columbia announces hotline to report sex abuse by clergy

October 22, 2018

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced Oct. 22 the launch of a hotline and email address to report child sexual abuse by clergy.

'John Paul II guided me through my youth', synod bishop says

October 22, 2018

VATICAN – John Paul II spent much of his papacy speaking to youth. Now some of those youth are bishops.

Cardinal Rivera's home attacked in Mexico City, security guard found dead

October 22, 2018

MEXICO CITY – An auxiliary police officer was shot dead at the Mexico City home of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera in what authorities described as an unsuccessful attempt at robbing the retired churchman.

Synod members walk to 'share the journey' with migrants, refugees

October 22, 2018

VATICAN – Honduran Bishop Jose Antonio Canales of Danli said that, given what is going on in his country and throughout Central America, he had to walk in the "Share the Journey" campaign of Caritas Internationalis.

Church's 'beautiful, yet challenging' stance on sexuality welcomes all, calls for conversion, Synod groups say

October 22, 2018

VATICAN – No one is excluded from the love of God or from being welcomed into the Catholic Church, but God's love and the church's welcome also come with a call to conversion, said the English-language groups at the Synod of Bishops.

D&P scrambles to help earthquake relief in Haiti and Indonesia

October 19, 2018

Earthquakes in Indonesia and Haiti have left long-time Development and Peace partners in those countries reaching out for help so they can in turn help struggling peasants and fishing families surrounding them.