The US is facing daily assaults on democracy, former President Barack Obama warned on Friday as he lauded Jesse Jackson for ...

Hundreds of Catholic faithful from Liberia’s Diocese of Cape Palmas gathered in Sasstown for the ninth annual pilgrimage to ...

A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

A new report says Rhode Island Catholic clergy abused hundreds of children for decades, while church leaders worked to downplay and minimize the scandal.

From a deadly attack in the middle of a Mass he was presiding over in Turkana to the killing of one of his young priests, Fr ...

A Lutheran pastor inspired in her youth by a Catholic priest and nuns is set to become the first female presiding bishop of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev.

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time. Nearly 400,000 people registered in advance to see the bone fragments. They are contained in a slim, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The Rev. Catherine Ngina Musau, a 55-year-old mother of two, was elected in November and will be installed in June. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — A Lutheran pastor inspired in her ...

The Lenten period for penance started this week with Ash Wednesday and Catholic priests are happily bracing for long lines outside the confessional. The faithful across the United States are ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Rt. Rev. Dominic Kimengich as the new Coadjutor Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mombasa. According to a statement dated Wednesday, January 28, 2026, Dominic will ...

Former D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie is running for mayor of D.C., he announced Wednesday. News4's Mark Segraves was among the first to sit down with McDuffie about his decision. McDuffie talked ...

Editor's note: This story is part of Global Sisters Report's yearlong series, "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," which will focus on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to ...