International News

News from outside of Canada.

Can Clinton-Kaine bring Catholic voters back to the Democrats?

July 29, 2016

PHILADELPHIA – If there is one constant in this unconventional presidential campaign it is the unpredictability — and importance — of the Catholic vote.

Mexican state lawmakers passes abortion ban

July 29, 2016

MEXICO CITY – Lawmakers in the Mexican state of Veracruz have approved a state constitutional amendment banning abortion and "defending life from the moment of conception until natural death."

Charges against Planned Parenthood video creators dropped

July 29, 2016

HOUSTON – The Harris County district attorney's office dropped the last remaining charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt July 26.

Terror attacks confound French authorities with shifting tactics and targets

July 29, 2016

PARIS – The urgent pleas for national unity heard after every terrorist attack in France are sounding ever more strained as the killers inspired by the Islamic State group nimbly shift their tactics and targets and confound the politicians struggling to combat them.

Vatican finance minister denies lastest abuse allegations

July 28, 2016

An Australian television station said July 26 that it had discovered new allegations of sexual abuse against Cardinal George Pell, which the cardinal strongly denied.

U.S. cardinal expresses worry about Trump rhetoric

July 28, 2016

WASHINGTON – While most U.S. bishops have not publicly addressed comments from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump regarding immigration, a popular U.S. cardinal and advisor to the Pope said he is worried about such rhetoric.

'The world is at war,' but religions are not, Pope says on way to Krakow

July 27, 2016

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO KRAKOW, POLAND – The world, not religion, is waging a war in pieces, Pope Francis said.

World needs 'witness of Christ's unconditional mercy,' says Phoenix eparchy's new bishop

July 27, 2016

GLENDALE, Ariz. – In a liturgy packed with rich symbolism and ancient tradition, the Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Eparchy of Phoenix celebrated the enthronement of Bishop John S. Pazak as its fifth bishop.

Priest slain in France while saying Mass; ISIS claims attack

July 26, 2016

ROME – France was convulsed by another horrific attack as armed men burst into a Catholic Church near Rouen and slit the throat of a priest who was saying Mass.

Pope expresses shock over violence in French church

July 26, 2016

VATICAN CITY – The murder of a priest in northern France, taken hostage with a handful of other faithful during a weekday morning Mass July 26, is another act of "absurd violence" added to too many stories of senseless violence and death, said the Vatican spokesman.