WOODCREST — It may have been the hottest week of the summer, but for a few dozen youngsters, the experience was quite cool.
Forty-five boys and girls between the ages of 7 through their mid-teens attended drone camp at St....
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-- Kerry Alys Robinson has been named as the next president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the organization representing the interests of its 167 member organizations dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic...
LONDON -- Human trafficking doesn't happen only in far away places where human rights are neglected. It happens around the corner.
It's modern-day slavery, say those working to stop it around the world.
"Slavery didn't end in the United States with...
Catholics in Greece have called for lessons to be learned after a wave of fires devastated parts of the country amid highest summer temperatures for half a century.
"We still don't know how many church communities have been affected, as...
Former Vice President Mike Pence defended the role of faith in public life at a Catholic conference on July 27.
In remarks at the Napa Institute Summer Conference, Pence said that "we need people of faith to live out their...
St. Elizabeth Parish and the St. Pius X Columbiettes will host the Vatican International Exhibition of The Eucharistic Miracles of the World and Carlo Acutis’ First Class Relic the weekend of Aug. 26-27.
This exhibition, which is currently touring the U.S.,...
WASHINGTON -- In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last year, pregnancy resource centers are becoming the new legal battleground now that abortion is deemed a matter left up to state legislatures.
In a federal...
The chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, has described religious freedom conditions in Nigeria as "abysmal."
Speaking July 18 at a House subcommittee hearing on religious freedom, he pointed to the country's "blasphemy laws and...
Jake Finkbonner first decided to become a medical doctor when he was in middle school.
"I'd love to help people the same way that so many people have helped me," the 23-year-old from Ferndale, Washington, explained to OSV News.
The recent...
By Sarah Mac Donald, OSV
DUBLIN -- The July 26 death of acclaimed Irish singer and songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, who was 56, has seen an outpouring of tributes from all walks of Irish life.
The singer's family announced the news "with...