World leaders remember Pope Francis as an important international player April 22, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News World leaders offered condolences for Pope Francis almost immediately after the pontiff died April 21 — a reflection of popes’ importance in diplomacy and geopolitics.
Nicaragua cracks down further on church during Holy Week April 14, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Police and paramilitaries maintained a heavy presence outside the Nicaraguan Managua cathedral on Palm Sunday, ensuring celebrations occurred entirely on church property — and sending a not-so-subtle message of intimidation.
Pope prays for victims of Dominican nightclub disaster April 10, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a nightclub disaster in the Dominican Republic that claimed more than 200 lives and has provoked mourning across the Caribbean country.
Church urges protection of young after attack on Mexican youth group March 24, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Masses were celebrated around the country March 23 as Catholics prayed for the victims of the attack, which claimed eight lives and left five injured, in the city of Salamanca in western Guanajuato state March 16.
The poor praying for Pope Francis’ health packed famous basilica in Buenos Aires province March 19, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Argentines working in humble barrios, or neighborhoods, and the people they serve, prayed for the health of Pope Francis at one of the country’s most important Catholic shrines — a show of affection and support from a population that the Holy Father made a priority in his time as local archbishop.
Mexican Catholics urge officials to ‘listen to victims’ amid grisly discovery of mass graves March 17, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Mexico’s Catholic leaders prayed for the country’s missing and urged the population of the country and their political leaders to listen to victims of violence amid outrage over the discovery of mass graves and ovens for cremating bodies on a drug cartel compound.
Mexican bishop decry ‘cruelest’ expression of violence as cartel extermination camp discovered March 14, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed outrage over the discovery of an extermination camp operated by a drug cartel, calling it “one of the cruelest expressions of evil and human misery that we’ve seen in the country,” and alleging such sites exist in other parts of Mexico.
Mexican bishops decry ‘culture of death’ in Mexico, reiterating calls for unity March 11, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Mexican bishops’ conference reiterated a call for unity as the country deals with threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, who promises to impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexican exports if migrants continue crossing the U.S. border and fentanyl is not stamped out. The bishops also called on Mexico to confront “the culture of death […]
Nicaragua calls Vatican ‘depraved’ for keeping Bishop Álvarez as head of two dioceses from afar February 12, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Nicaragua’s government issued a statement attacking the Vatican as “depraved” following interviews in which exiled Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa reaffirmed the pope’s desire for him to continue leading a pair of Nicaraguan dioceses from afar.
Latin American church leaders decry ‘pain,’ ‘drama’ of deported compatriots January 29, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic leaders and migrant advocates have expressed alarm over Trump’s executive orders mandating mass deportations, too, along with the manner in which the deportations were carried out.
Líderes de la Iglesia apoyan a los migrantes amenazados por los planes de deportación January 21, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: En Español El cardenal Blase J. Cupich de Chicago tranquilizó a los inmigrantes de su arquidiócesis ante los informes de una posible deportación masiva por parte de una nueva administración en Washington que tendría como objetivo el área de Chicago y dijo que estos informes “nos hieren profundamente”.
Church leaders support migrants threatened by deportation plans, urge readiness to receive them January 21, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago reassured migrants in his archdiocese that reports of a possible mass deportation by a new administration in Washington that would target the Chicago area “wound us deeply.”
