Category: International News

The Synod on Synodality will be extended to 2024, with the assembly meetings to be held in Rome over two sessions in October 2023 and October 2024.

Catholic leaders have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her death on September 8 and the end of a reign that lasted more than 70 years.

Bishops in the northeast of India have pledged to fight climate change in the region at their regional conference. The North Eastern Regional Bishops’ Council (NEIRBC) covers the area of India that is north and east of Bangladesh, forming a panhandle. The region is less densely populated than most of India, with only 25 million […]

Church land in Queensland could be used to help tackle the state’s housing crisis, according to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Brisbane Archdiocese was among stakeholders at a high-level housing roundtable meeting that is a step towards a state Housing Summit to be held on October 20.

The Vatican is unlikely to make any statement on the possibility of women being ordained to the diaconate in the Roman Catholic Church until after the international bishop’s Synod on Synodality next year, says international expert Dr Phyllis Zagano. Dr Zagano was one of 12 scholars appointed by Pope Francis in 2016 to the commission […]

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster congratulated the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and urged her to focus on the poor by immediately halting the country’s declining living standards. The cardinal, president of the English and Welsh Catholic Bishops’ Conference, said many people in the UK would be facing the choice between ‘heating and […]

Speaking to a large gathering of 30-plus faith leaders at a reception at Buckingham Palace, Charles emphasised his own strong Christian faith and pledged to protect religious diversity in the United Kingdom. He said the sovereign has ‘a duty to protect the diversity of our country, including by protecting the space for faith itself and […]

Pope Francis spent three days in Kazakhstan in September, attending the Seventh Congress of World and Traditional Religions. The Pope met with religious leaders, called for increased religious freedom and condemned religious justifications for war and violence. Although Kazakhstan is predominantly Muslim, over four million Kazakhstanis profess Christianity. Over 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s Christians […]

Commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning that he was not bluffing about possibly using nuclear weapons, Pope Francis said that thinking of such an act was ‘madness’. At his general audience at St Peter’s Square, the Pope said Ukrainians were being subjected to savageness, monstrosities and torture, calling them a ‘noble’ people being martyred. […]