International News

News from outside of Canada.

Paisley ultimately endorsed peace

September 18, 2014

DUBLIN - Irish Cardinal Sean Brady has paid tribute to a controversial Protestant firebrand-turned-peacemaker who once heckled St. John Paul II as the “antichrist.”

Nuncio: World won't be more 'genuinely' human unless all work for peace

September 17, 2014

NEW YORK - Peace is never achieved once and for all, but is the fruit of a daily quest for greater justice and respect for one another, the new papal nuncio to the United Nations said Sept. 15.

Southern Africa: AIDS has left families headed by kids, grandparents

September 16, 2014

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - With the highest levels of HIV prevalence globally, southern African countries have seen families torn apart by AIDS, with children left to raise younger siblings and sick children left in the care of elderly grandparents.

Canadian charities help Filipinos rebuild

September 14, 2014

Every one of the $13 million Development and Peace raised last year to help Filipinos left homeless by the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall has a job to do. Thousands of Filipino families are still living in tents, in the beached hulks of ships Typhoon Haiyan left stranded on the streets of Tacloban City and in elementary schools where Filipino families first found shelter from the storm 10 months ago.

Brutally murdered nuns laid to rest in the Congo as crime investigation continues

September 12, 2014

Three elderly Italian nuns murdered in Burundi were laid to rest Thursday (Sept. 11) in a Xaverian cemetery in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened calls for action about their death.

UN needs strike force says Canadian peace advocate

September 12, 2014

The United Nations should create a permanent, rapid-response peacekeeping force for rapid intervention in emergencies, said Canada’s elder statesman of peace and disarmament.

Catholic radio forced off air

September 12, 2014

A Catholic Radio station in South Sudan that the Canadian bishops’ development agency hopes to support has been shut down for reporting both sides of a story.

'It pierced my heart like a knife,' nun says after visit to Iraqis

September 11, 2014

BEIRUT - Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, provincial leader of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for Lebanon and Syria, is still shaken by what she witnessed visiting Irbil, Iraq.

Indian church appeals for support for relief work in flood-hit Kashmir

September 11, 2014

CHENNAI, India - The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India has appealed to Catholics to mobilize funds and materials to augment church relief work in northern Jammu and Kashmir state, devastated by floods.

Seminarian granted his deathbed wish to be ordained

September 11, 2014

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - As William Carmona lay gravely ill in a San Antonio hospital bed, he repeatedly questioned his classmates from nearby Assumption Seminary: "Where is Bishop Choby?" "When will he get here?" And finally: "How many more hours until he ordains me?"