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In a surprising move, Pope Francis has named Ukrainian-born Bishop Mykola Bychok as Australia’s new cardinal.

Myanmar has been wracked by violence since a military coup in 2021 overthrew Aun San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government and plunged it into conflict.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the influential Peruvian priest known as ‘the father of liberation theology’ and hailed as a ‘prophet of the poor’, has died in Lima at the age of 96.

Pope Francis has accepted the request of Indonesian Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, not to be created a cardinal at the upcoming Consistory on 7 December, 2024. Sixty-two-year-old Franciscan Paskalis Bruno Syukur was appointed a bishop by Pope Francis in 2013, after serving as Provincial of the Order of Friars Minor in Indonesia.

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to Vatican statistics.

Scalabrini Sr Rosita Milesi has received the prestigious Nansen Award from the United Nations Refugee Agency. This award is given annually to individuals, groups or organisations for their work in protecting refugees.

The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has warned people to ‘be careful what you wish for’, as British MPs prepare to debate a new bill to allow assisted suicide.

A third of Catholics in England and Wales have reduced their Mass attendance due to concerns over the child sexual abuse crisis within the Church, according to a new report.