Monuments in 2,300 cities light up in Sant’Egidio campaign to stop “highly inhuman and useless” capital punishment that “reduces states to mere perpetrators of injustice”
Calling for more visas and the opening of humanitarian corridors, Spanish Bishops plead on plight of refugees: “We cannot remain oblivious to their pain”
“While COVID-19 remains a clear and present danger, climate change is no less of a pressing crisis”, religious warn in letters to UK, EU and African Union
Francis also expresses concerns over world hunger, COVID-induced food insecurity in private audience with FAO Director-General
Bells of more than 40 churches in Madrid ring in memory of victims of domestic violence as archdiocese clamours: “The Church has to be a safe space for all women”
At book launch in Saudi Arabia, Holy See representative to UN in Geneva Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič says human fraternity key to move from “incivility of conflict” to “civilisation of encounter”
Mother Mechthild Thürmer says of run-in with law over granting sanctuary in her Bavarian abbey: “I have no choice, I have to help, I have to help, as much as I can”
“The Gospel says you have to get down to the nitty-gritty and get your hands dirty”, says 56-year-old “street priest” and Archbishop of Siena
Francis speaks by phone with EU Council President to discuss “how to tackle COVID-19 from a multilateral perspective”, double down on “fight against religious hatred and radicalisation”
“Single-race or predominantly ethnic parishes are not the ideal”, laments Chicago auxiliary Joseph N. Perry, denouncing that “often… our parishes mirror the racial segregation patterns of American neighborhoods”
“When global wealth is not being spread equitably, the gap between rich and poor is widening, and the environment is being sacrificed for financial growth, we need to stop and think”
Bishops plead with President Trump, Attorney General William Barr: “Witness to the dignity of all human life: stop these executions”
Bishop of Tenerife deplores 225 new arrivals “were just left there, left to their own devices” after being evicted by police November 17 from emergency camp
A Spanish archbishop has backed workers protesting in churches over the lack of government help to overcome the COVID-19 economic…
“I am willing to suffer for the common good and for our sin of not loving our brothers and sisters, a condition that leads to war”, declares Martha Hennessy, 65, at sentencing for break-in at naval base
EU Bishops of COMECE: “Solving the climate crisis protects the human family from the dangers of a warming world, and decisive action is needed now more than ever”
“Today the Church tells you, she tells us: ‘Use what God has given you and look at the poor'”, Francis insists at Angelus
Church relief group – along with over 30 Church and civil society organisations, 42 academics and 45 members of the European Parliament – calls on European Commission to establish legally-binding minimum income scheme
“There are those who assert that America is not for ‘illegals’. But America was taken from the Indigenous People illegally… Reinstating the lost dignity of migrant people is a necessary gospel work”
President-elect tells Jesuit Refugee Service that he will “restore America’s historic role in protecting the vulnerable and defending the rights of refugees everywhere”
Francis encourages refugee advocates “to reach out the hand of friendship to those who are alone, accompanying them and strengthening their voice”
Ahead of the World Day of the Poor Sunday, Rome sounds alarm on “ever-increasing number of families who find themselves in objective difficulty” due to coronavirus crisis
With the mass slaughter of animals, “everybody loses: our earth, the air, animals, water sources, biodiversity, the Global South, the workers”, denounces Father Rainer Hagencord, the recipient of a special UN award
“The Church must seek justice not only for the unborn but for those already born, particularly Black Lives that are in danger due to the sin of racism”
Brussels-based Church development group CIDSE calls tragedy that killed 19 and left over a million homeless “a catastrophic case of corporate negligence”
Pushing back against president’s allegations of “fraud”, sisters say his “reckless attempts to disenfranchise millions… are shameful and will not be tolerated”
Members of the “Leave the church(es) in the village” collective were demonstrating against the destruction of trees to make way for expansion of Garzweiler surface mine
In post-synodal message, hierarchs recall that withholding wages, unfair remuneration and lack of social protection for workers are sins that cry to heaven for vengeance
Faithful commemorate Immerath church demolished in 2018 to make way for Garzweiler surface mine, call on North Rhine-Westphalian government to abandon “hostile and climate-destroying” enabling of extractivism