UK Mass attendance jumps significantly, numbers still not quite pre-pandemic February 17, 2025By Andy Drozdziak OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Mass attendance throughout England and Wales increased by almost 50,000 people between 2022 and 2023, which a leading Catholic professor believes could be the catalyst for new growth in the church.
British Catholic high school reeling from the loss of student in stabbing incident February 7, 2025By Andy Drozdziak OSV News Filed Under: News, World News The Catholic community in Sheffield, England, is in shock after the “tragic” stabbing of 15-year-old schoolboy Harvey Willgoose at All Saints Catholic High School led to the death of a student hailed as “one of our own” and “a best friend to all.”
Assisted dying bill in the UK is a ‘slippery slope,’ cardinal says October 11, 2024By Andy Drozdziak OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has joined leading Catholic politicians and pro-life groups in calling on U.K. Catholics to take immediate and urgent action to oppose an assisted suicide bill that he says will strike “fear and trepidation” in vulnerable people.
British pro-lifer given payout after her arrest for praying silently calls the law ‘Orwellian’ August 22, 2024By Andy Drozdziak OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News A Catholic pro-life volunteer, twice arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, has received from the U.K. police force who arrested her.