International News

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Murder case of Blessed Oscar Romero has been reopened

May 19, 2017

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A nearly 40 year-old murder case was reopened this week to properly prosecute the suspected killer behind the Salvadorian archbishop's martyrdom.

After clashes, Central African cardinal urges more efforts toward peace

May 19, 2017

OXFORD, England – A cardinal in Central African Republic called on international peacekeepers to act more effectively, after he helped end an anti-Muslim flare-up in the southeastern city of Bangassou.

Child malnutrition in Venezuela at humanitarian crisis level, Caritas says

May 19, 2017

VATICAN CITY – With soaring food prices and a free-falling economy, child malnutrition in Venezuela has crossed the threshold of a humanitarian crisis, the local chapter of Caritas Internationalis said.

Church cannot ignore injustice in Israel-Palestine conflict, bishops say

May 19, 2017

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church will speak out against injustice and avoid any attempt to normalize the “festering wound” of the Israeli-Palestinian situation, a commission from the region’s leading Catholic bishops has said.

Spaniards splurge on First Communion parties despite economic hard times

May 19, 2017

MADRID, Spain – Over the past nine years, Spain has been hit particularly hard by the worldwide economic crisis.

Archdiocese reacts to Mexico's ranking as world's second most violent country

May 18, 2017

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – The Mexico archdiocese's newspaper Desde la Fe wrote an editorial decrying the “disastrous situation in Mexico” as the country ranks number two in a report on the world's most violent nations.

First American martyr’s remains exhumed, verified as part of beatification process

May 18, 2017

OKARCHE, Okla. – Early on the morning of May 10, the remains of Father Stanley F. Rother were exhumed from Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche and transported to Oklahoma City.

Justice must run its course: Sydney archbishop on abuse claims against Cardinal Pell

May 17, 2017

SYDNEY – Public prosecutors have submitted recommendations to Victoria Police on whether to try Australian Cardinal George Pell on decades-old abuse allegations, but their advice has not been made public.

Commission reportedly voted to recognize first seven Medjugorje visions

May 17, 2017

VATICAN CITY – The commission that now-retired Pope Benedict XVI established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to recognize as supernatural the first seven appearances of Mary in 1981.

Meeting Pope gives hope to Huntington's disease patients, expert says

May 17, 2017

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis' meeting with families affected by Huntington's disease will bring much-needed attention and hope to men, women and children who often are ostracized and even left to die alone and unloved, a U.S.-based neuroscientist said.