International News

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In El Salvador, seeing firsthand the legacy of murdered Jesuits

August 2, 2014

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Standing at the edge of the garden where six Jesuit priests were killed in 1989, Echol Nix is clear about the message he is taking home with him to the United States.

Jesuits tell their alumni in Congress: Protect border children

August 1, 2014

American Jesuits are pushing members of Congress who were educated at the Catholic order’s schools to pass aid for thousands of refugee children who have surged across the border in Texas in recent months, calling proposals to swiftly deport them “inhumane and an insult to American values.”

AIDS activists praise progress, warn about lingering danger of HIV

August 1, 2014

MELBOURNE, Australia - Catholic AIDS activists said they are encouraged by the steady progress being made against HIV, but warned against complacency.

Meriam Ibrahim leaves Italy for new life in New Hampshire

July 31, 2014

ROME - Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and then spared after an international campaign, left Italy on July 31 on a flight for the United States, where she plans to build a new life.

In Jerusalem hospital, staff and family help Gaza trauma patients

July 31, 2014

JERUSALEM - Since the death of his wife in an Israeli missile attack on their house in the Gaza Strip in late July, George Ayyad, 75, has been keeping vigil over his son Jeries, 31.

Vatican removes priest in Paraguay accused of sex abuse in U.S.

July 31, 2014

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has ordered a Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Paraguay to remove a priest accused of sex abuse in the United States and to restrict the activities of the bishop who hired him.

Poll: More Italians support abortion rights than cosmetic surgery

July 30, 2014

ROME - As the Catholic Church wrestles with changing community attitudes on key social issues, a new Italian survey finds more support for abortion, gay rights and euthanasia than for cosmetic surgery.

Ukraine crisis shows the danger of manipulating truth, chaplain says

July 30, 2014

ROME - Propaganda and fear were the sparks that ignited the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that has become a real war, said a Jesuit military chaplain.

Even with airstrike warnings, Gaza parish staff have nowhere to go

July 30, 2014

JERUSALEM - When the staff at the lone Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip received text warnings to evacuate the premises, they had nowhere to go.

Number of people displaced because of faith skyrockets in 2013

July 30, 2014

WASHINGTON - The displacement of people around the globe because of their religious beliefs in 2013 rose to levels unseen in years, the State Department reported.