President Donald Trump nominated three new members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, ...

A Nigerian bishop said that over 200 churches have been destroyed in his archdiocese since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009. 'We are survi ...

CWN Editor's Note: The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church dismissed the notion that Russia is a defender of Christian values. “Russian propaganda is based on so-called traditional values. And ...

CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV received the bishops of El Salvador on September 11, in what Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez described as a “very intense, very inspiring, very stimulating, and very ...

CWN Editor's Note: A federal district judge temporarily exempted the Archdiocese of Chicago and two religious institutes from state assisted suicide legislation while their lawsuit against the State ...

CWN Editor's Note: The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued new decrees in 2025 permitting the celebration of Mass, according to the 1962 Missal, in parishes in 34 ...

Peter asks the Lord, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answers, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.” A ...

Pope Leo XIV told members of the Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament that “your presence is a shining witness to God’s freely-give love, which sows in the human heart a longing to seek and ...

CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, sent a message in Pope Leo’s name to Bishop Derio Olivero of Pinerolo, Italy, as the Synod of the Waldensian ...

CWN Editor's Note: A prominent American Jesuit discussed “why I hate the old Latin Mass.” “The old Latin Mass is like a zombie,” said Father Thomas Reese, S.J., in an op-ed published by Religion News ...

CWN Editor's Note: The president of the German bishops’ conference expressed “great concern” that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could win the state election in Saxony-Anhalt next month.

CWN Editor's Note: In a sign of extraordinary Church-state tensions in Armenia, the head of Armenian Apostolic Church (CNEWA profile) and six other bishops are on trial for defying a court order to ...