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The president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), Bishop Sithembele Anton Sipuka.

South African bishop decries government inaction on alleged ISIS operations

Aug 12, 2024

By Silas Isenjia

Bishop Sithembele Sipuka said the group is destructive based on its activities in Mozambique and Nigeria. Read more

South African platinum and chrome miners drilling holes in rock for blasting.

South African bishops file class-action suit against mining company over black lung disease

Aug 18, 2023

By Tyler Arnold

The bishops began the process of filing a class-action suit against a global mining company on behalf of current and... Read more

Cathedral of St. Mary, Cape Town, South Africa.

Tabernacle desecrated during South African cathedral robbery

Apr 20, 2020

The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa, was vandalized on Saturday and the tabernacle desecrated.  Read more

South African president Jacob Zuma at a Nov. 10, 2015 meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

South African bishops call on nation's president to consider resigning

Apr 10, 2017

The bishops of South Africa have called on the country's embattled president, Jacob Zuma, to consider stepping down as part... Read more

Mysterious deaths of mentally ill draw concern from South Africa bishops

Sep 22, 2016

The unexplained deaths of three dozen mentally ill patients in a South African province show the need for action to... Read more

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From left: John Hinshaw, Jonathan Darnel, Lauren Handy, Joan Bell, and Jean Marshall are among the pro-life activists who are still in prison or awaiting prison sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for protests at abortion clinics — but President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he will likely grant them presidential pardons.

Meet the pro-life prisoners whom Trump is expected to pardon

St. John’s Cathedral in the Netherlands is lit up for Red Wednesday on Nov. 23, 2022.

Churches around the world lit up red in honor of persecuted Christians

Despite an online petition posted to change.org in mid-October that garnered over 53,000 signatures in protest of the evergreen to be used for the Vatican Christmas tree being chopped down, the tree arrived as scheduled in St. Peter’s Square at 7 a.m. on Nov. 21, 2024.

Vatican Christmas tree wreathed in controversy over environmental objections

Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Freiburg, Germany.

Church beatifies German priest who was executed by Nazis in 1944

Cardinal Kevin Farrell celebrates Mass for the World Meeting of Families 2022 on June 25, 2022.

Pope Francis assigns U.S. cardinal to carry out ‘urgent’ overhaul of Vatican pension fund

“In Jesus there is no contradiction between truth and charity,” notes professor Marta Rodríguez Díaz, who teaches in the philosophy department of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.

Gender: The problem isn’t the term but the anthropology behind it, Catholic expert says

“We think of these stories of saints that have withstood all this persecution as belonging to the Middle Ages,” said Bill McGurn, godfather of Jimmy Lai. “It’s going on right now, and we can see it.”

Jimmy Lai’s godfather assesses trial: ‘He’s a real champion of freedom’

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Wyoming governor pledges to appeal after judge blocks state pro-life laws

Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598.

What do we know about the presentation of Mary?

Archbishop Philip Anyolo of the Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya.

Nairobi archbishop declines Kenyan president’s donations to Catholic parish

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