European bishops address ‘rising tensions’ as Trump talks to Putin, Zelenskyy March 19, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News As President Donald Trump held new talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin March 18, followed by a call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine March 19, bishops across Europe expressed alarm at current geopolitical developments.
No peace treaty possible without truth, justice, Ukrainian bishops say after diplomatic dispute March 3, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainian bishops spoke up as international reaction continued over U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s Feb. 28 televised White House clash with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
British pro-lifers urge church to speak out in wake of nation’s worst public abortion scandal February 18, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Pro-life campaigners have urged Britain’s Catholic bishops to speak out against pressure for abortions.
Pro-life groups welcome British cardinal’s attack on ‘irresponsible’ assisted suicide bill February 8, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News Pro-life groups welcomed comments by the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales bitterly criticizing attempts by government-aligned parliamentarians to rush through a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide.
Bishops across Europe remember Holocaust victims, urge world to fight rising antisemitism January 27, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Religious Freedom, World News Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new rise in antisemitism and extremism.
Poland’s church deplores government curbs on religious teaching, with lessons cut in half January 26, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Poland’s Catholic primate has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of pandering to anti-church feeling, after it unveiled new plans to downgrade religious teaching in the traditionally Catholic country.
European Catholics take stock of year’s mixed progress on life issues December 29, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News When British parliamentarians approved a law to allow physician-assisted suicide on Nov. 29, it followed a year of legislative inroads against Catholic social teaching across Europe.
Polish Catholics welcome new Warsaw archbishop’s ‘synodal commitment’ December 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News When a new archbishop takes charge of Poland’s key Warsaw Archdiocese Dec. 14, his progress will be watched closely by those favoring change in the country’s Catholic Church.
Churches, faith groups join forces in Britain against ‘deceptive’ assisted suicide bill November 25, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped up efforts to block its Nov. 29 approval by parliamentarians.
Catholic priests face new pressures after nuncio departs Belarus November 25, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vocations, World News Clergy in Belarus are deleting their social media profiles to avoid arrest, according to church sources, as local parishes face pressure under a new religious law.
British Catholics react to Anglican archbishop’s shock resignation November 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News Leading British Catholics have urged their church to avoid involvement in the resignation of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, who quit Nov. 12 after being implicated in a large-scale abuse cover-up.
As Poles remember murdered priest, Catholic researchers’ work on communism’s martyrs continues November 1, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News In late October, while thousands gathered across the Polish capital to commemorate the 1984 kidnapping and brutal murder of Solidarity chaplain Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, patient work continued at the Jesuit order’s archive in Warsaw to document the fate of other communist-era victims.
