The recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran has brought about fear and anxiety in the country and tested the faith of its small Catholic community, said Belgian Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan.
In a July 12 email to OSV...
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration on July 22 said the United States would withdraw from the United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO, a group that has partnered with the Holy See on human development and cultural heritage projects.
Mary Ellen O'Connell,...
JERUSALEM -- Amid the destruction witnessed during their July 18–20 pastoral visit to Gaza, following the Israeli shelling of the Holy Family Parish church compound that killed three people and injured 10, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Greek Orthodox Patriarch...
Fr. John Aurillia OFM, former secretary to Padre Pio, prayed the rosary and shared stories of his experiences with the saint during “An Evening with Fr. John Aurillia” at St. Helena's Church in Wilmington July 22.
Padre Pio was well-known...
“One of Us” is a brief snapshot of people who support the Catholic church in various ways in the Diocese of Wilmington. We regularly feature people who may be recognizable within their parish or school communities.
NAME: Christina Klaus
Parish: Holy Cross...
Newly installed Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh has expressed his "great sorrow" over "hateful vandalism" at one of his parish churches, which federal authorities are now investigating. Meanwhile, law enforcement in Kansas told OSV News they're closing in...
A Nigerian priest kidnapped by Boko Haram in June has been released, OSV News has learned.
Maria Lozano, press contact for Aid to the Church in Need International, told OSV News in a July 21 statement that the organization "thanks...
• Save the Date: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025
You are invited to join Bishop Koenig, priests, deacons and parishioners from across Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore at the annual Diocese of Wilmington Marian Pilgrimage on Saturday, October 11, 2025, beginning...
One hundred years ago this July, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, was thrust into the national spotlight in what was pitched as a historic showdown between faith and science.
The so-called "Scopes Monkey Trial" centered on John T. Scopes,...
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami and some 25 Knights of Columbus saddled up their motorcycles to pray a rosary at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial migrant detention center recently opened in the Florida Everglades.
The archbishop posted...