OSV News
Kickoff of annual A-Cross America Relay for Life celebrates, defends and...
NEW YORK -- The national kickoff for the annual A-Cross America Relay for Life, began early Aug. 26 in Manhattan, with a group walking...
Oil drilling close to the mouth of the Amazon River raises...
SÃO PAULO -- Church activists in the Amazon are worried about the Brazilian government's plan to exploit oil in a marine area close to...
With National Suicide Prevention Month approaching Bishop Michael F. Burbidge reminds...
With National Suicide Prevention Month approaching in September, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia -- just a few miles from...
Russian forces dub Ukraine pastor ‘main drug lord’ and seize Catholic...
LVIV, Ukraine -- Russian occupiers launched an attack Aug. 22 on St. Teresa of the Child Jesus Roman Catholic Church in the town of...
Never give up on family and friends who say ‘We used...
By Bishop Gerard W. Battersby
I didn’t sleep well this week. My heart aches.
I had dinner with some dear friends. The conversation light, the perch...
Nicaraguan regime makes it illegal for Jesuits to operate in Central...
MEXICO CITY -- The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits' legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for...
Republican presidential candidates debate current issues as well as absent former...
Eight Republican candidates participated Aug. 23 in the Republican National Committee's first debate of their party's presidential primary process in a Milwaukee debate hosted...
Wildfires consuming British Columbia and the Northwest Territories of Canada spare...
TORONTO -- Wildfires wreaking devastation across British Columbia and the Northwest Territories of Canada have apparently spared Catholic churches, though the same thing cannot...
The ACN ‘Religious Freedom in the World Report’ shows rights are...
On the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief, observed on the United Nations' calendar Aug. 22,...
Archdiocese of San Francisco believes bankruptcy is ‘compassionate and equitable solution...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco announced Aug. 21 the archdiocese has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization "to facilitate...