Myanmar death toll surpasses 2,000; cardinal calls for immediate ceasefire amid tragedy March 31, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News People in Myanmar are in desperate need of humanitarian supplies and medical support as the death toll from the devastating earthquake that rocked central Myanmar March 28 continues to rise.
Principal of Legionaries of Christ-linked school in Spain resigns amid abuse scandal March 26, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News The principal of a school run by members of Regnum Christi, the lay arm of the Legionaries of Christ, resigned after a school chaplain was arrested for sexually abusing five underage girls.
Ukraine war confirms humanity can ‘rely only on God,’ nuncio says March 21, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News The apostolic nuncio to Ukraine said that recent events regarding Ukraine have shown that the only true weapon that can bring peace is prayer.
Pastoral center in northern Myanmar among latest Catholic sites bombed by governing military junta March 7, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A Catholic pastoral center in northern Myanmar is among the latest Christian sites bombed by the country’s governing military junta.
Lenten campaign focuses on persecuted Christians; priest’s murder makes message more urgent March 5, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Religious Freedom, World News Aid to the Church in Need’s call to the faithful to reflect this Lenten season on the persecution of Christians has taken on more urgency with the news that a Nigerian priest was found murdered on Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent.
As U.S. pauses military aid, EU bishops call for unity in supporting Ukraine March 4, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Uncategorized, War in Ukraine, World News Following the announcement that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a “pause” on U.S. assistance to Ukraine, Catholic bishops in the European Union called for unity on the continent.
Catholics worldwide unite in prayer for pope’s health February 20, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Pope Francis continues to recover at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Catholics in the pope’s Diocese of Rome and around the world joined in prayer for his health.
Thousands in Myanmar village gather at funeral to mourn slain priest February 18, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Uncategorized, World News Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack.
Tuscan bishop laments passage of right-to-die law in Italy, calls it a ‘defeat for everyone’ February 15, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The head of the Tuscan Bishops’ Conference said the passage of a new law in Italy allowing medically assisted suicide was “not an achievement, but a defeat for everyone.”
‘Martyr of the Amazon’: Recalling Sister Dorothy Stang’s ministry 20 years after her murder February 12, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Environment, News, Religious Freedom, World News In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the death of Sister Stang, who is considered by many as a “Martyr of the Amazon,” a relic containing blood-soaked soil from the site of her murder was enshrined at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island in Rome on Jan. 10.
Pope Francis, Sweden’s cardinal mourn victims of deadly mass shooting February 5, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” by the tragic shooting in a Swedish school, sending “assurance of his spiritual closeness to all affected by this traumatic incident,” in which 10 students of an adult education center lost their lives.
All Sodalitium-linked movements are ended, Vatican envoy confirms in Peru February 4, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News An official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said Pope Francis’ decision to suppress Sodalitium Christianae Vitae was based on the fact that there was no authentic charism, or spiritual gifts, in the controversial lay movement founded by Luis Fernando Figari in 1971.
