Catholic and Protestant churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing for mediation as conflict escalates in the country’s east. Their efforts to engage all parties, including ...

The Catholic Church and federal government reacted vehemently to new legislation in Washington state that requires priests to report child abuse or neglect to law enforcement after learning about ...

A Catholic church in Chin, Myanmar's only Christian ... “These places of worship are not only protected under international law during times of conflict, but they’re of sacred importance ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... law, are completely equal in dignity with the rites of the West. All of these eastern ritual ...

Catholic clergy were previously exempt as according to church doctrine the content of confession can't be shared without breaking Canon law. The move sparked an angry response from Archbishop Paul ...

Except I would recommend that state law follow Canon law. We the Catholic Church have a theological purpose that is to protect the vulnerable from assisted suicide and that is why state ...

Washington state Senator Noel Frame has rejected the Catholic Church's claim that it would have to excommunicate priests who comply with her new child abuse reporting law. During an interview with ...

Church officials say a Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travelers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice declared the law “anti-Catholic ... practice doesn’t conflict with “public morals.” Hill added that the church cares about protecting ...

Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane expressed opposition to the law, speaking for other Catholic bishops and priests that they are “prepared to face jail rather than violate the rules of the church.” ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... grew permitted abortion and infanticide. In Roman law, the two acts were really not distinguished because an infant did ...