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Lifelong human-rights advocate Bianca Jagger calls Nicaragua’s purge of Catholic clergy...

LIVERPOOL, England -- Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has accused the Nicaraguan dictatorship of creating a spiritual vacuum in the country by its purge...

Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre study shows nations with assisted suicide have...

MANCHESTER, England -- Nations that legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide develop higher rates of "self-initiated" suicides than those that do not, according to a...

Pope Francis, Catholics in the U.K. pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth...

MANCHESTER, England -- Catholics in the U.K. paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her death Sept. 8 and the end of a reign...

Churches not immune to tensions arising from vaccine mandates

A parishioner of a church in Western Australia captured the moment when police interrupted Mass to demand that five people who were not wearing...

Update: The Society of the Holy Child Jesus withdraws request to...

MANCHESTER, England -- A religious order has withdrawn its request to exhume its founder and transfer some of her remains from England to Philadelphia. The...

Use of COVID-19 vaccines will require use of conscience, English and...

MANCHESTER, England — The bishops of England and Wales have made a U-turn on the morality of using a COVID-19 vaccine derived from aborted...

Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales mourns tragic losses as abortion...

MANCHESTER, England -- Catholic bishops said they were disappointed by figures showing abortions in England and Wales were at their highest recorded level. The statistics...

One year after Truro report, Vatican foreign minister Gallagher says the...

MANCHESTER, England -- The Catholic Church has failed to defend Christians effectively, partly because it historically accepted persecution as part of its "community story,"...

English bishops shocked at United Kingdom to allow abortion pills at...

MANCHESTER, England -- The English bishops have expressed their shock at an emergency policy to allow "do-it-yourself abortions" during the coronavirus pandemic. Auxiliary Bishop John...

British government legalizes abortion in Northern Ireland despite opposition

MANCHESTER, England -- The British government has pressed ahead with the legalization of abortion in Northern Ireland. A right of access to abortion was included...

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