(3 Sept 10 - RV) South African government officials want to meet with labor unions to find a solution to a civil servants' strike for higher wages ...»

(2 Sept 10 - RV) The Congress of Asian Catholic Laity is continuing this week in Seoul, South Korea.

The  Conference is bringing together ...»

(2 Sept 10 - RV) Final preparations are underway at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, where a special symposium will be held for ...»

(2 Sept 10 - RV) Prime Minister Julia Gillard today edged closer to retaining power in Australia when an independent lawmaker said he would support ...»

(2 Sept 10 - RV) Striking South African state workers planned a protest march today as their leaders held meetings with government negotiators after ...»

(2 Sept 10 - RV) Flash floods have worsened an already chronic humanitarian crisis caused by drought – particularly in the landlocked countries ...»

(2 Sept 10 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI today received the President of Israel Shimon Peres. The two men spoke about of the relations between the State of ...»

(01 Sept 10 - RV) Israel's defence minister said today the Jewish state would be willing to hand over parts of Jerusalem in peace talks with the ...»

(01 Sept 10 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI sent a message to participants at the Congress of Asian Catholic Laity currently under way in Seoul Korea. We ...»

(01 Sept 10 - RV) Pakistan's next wheat harvest is at risk after floods destroyed more than a half-million tonnes of seed stocks in the country, ...»

Phoenix, Ariz., Sep 3, 2010 / 05:54 am (CNA).- The Catholic Bishop of Phoenix responded Wednesday to a priest's reported participation in an attempted priestly ordination of a woman. Urging prayers for all involved, he said such actions are "divisive" and have "profoundly harmful consequences."

In 1859, Adele Brise, a 28-year-old Belgian immigrant in Wisconsin, reported that the Blessed Virgin had appeared to her and asked her to catechize children. In 1861, a chapel was built on ...

Hackers, likely from overseas, have stolen over $600,000 from an Iowa diocese and transferred the funds to other accounts. "While the Diocese of Des Moines is protected by insurance ...

Patriarch Antonius Naguib, the head of the Coptic Catholic Church, has provided a fascinating glimpse into the life of Christians in Egypt in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need. ...

A retired bishop has come to the defense of the late Father James Chesney, who was linked in a recent report to a 1972 terrorist bombing in Northern Ireland. "Everyone takes the same ...

Citing "restructuring," the University of Notre Dame has fired Bill Kirk from his position as associate vice president for residence life. David Solomon, a university philosophy professor ...

Four Christian and Hindu villages in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh have been deliberately flooded, leaving over 2,800 families homeless. "The waters came as a result of ...

(3 Sept 10 - RV) South African government officials want to meet with labor unions to find a solution to a civil servants' strike for higher wages that is in its third week. Schools and hospitals have been severely affected by the strike, and protests linked to it have sometimes been violent. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier is the Archbishop of Durban. He us that the government is in a weak position... 00:02:13:97

Malibu, Calif., Sep 3, 2010 / 02:40 am (CNA).- Reports from Malibu, California indicated on Wednesday that the U.S. Ambassador to Malta, Douglas Kmiec, was expected to make a full recovery from what are now described as "moderate" injuries from an August 25 car accident. Sister Mary Campbell was killed in the accident, which also seriously injured Monsignor John Sheridan.

Front Royal, Va., Sep 3, 2010 / 01:18 am (CNA).- A British professor's call to sterilize by force members of society who would be "inadequate parents" prompted criticism from the interim head of Human Life International (HLI), who warned that the view is more mainstream among academics and derives from a society where life is controlled "at our whim."