As Hong Kong Catholic activist’s trial reaches final stretch, appeals grow to ‘save him’ August 18, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Uncategorized, World News At the start of final submissions in his landmark trial, Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was provided with medication and a heart monitor Aug. 18, after health concerns had delayed proceedings the previous week.
As Latino communities live in fear of ICE, LA Catholics find ways to help hurting families August 18, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News In largely Latino communities across Southern California shaken by weeks of immigration enforcement raids on city sidewalks and local businesses, the fear has forced unauthorized immigrants inside, shut out from work, from church, from life.
OSV ends periodical publications in ‘strategic shift’ to OSV News, other initiatives August 15, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Uncategorized, World News Longtime Catholic publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc. (OSV), has announced it will sunset almost all of its periodical operations.
Indian nuns released on conditional bail; advocates, superiors call their arrest ‘unlawful’ August 5, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth jailed for alleged human trafficking and forced conversion in central India have been released on bail under strict conditions by a special court dealing with terror cases.
The three questions young people asked Pope Leo XIV — and his answers August 4, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry After beginning the vigil with prayers, the pope engaged in a dialogue with several young people who asked him three questions.
OSV Editors: The atrocity against humanity in Gaza must end July 31, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Commentary War always brings unimaginable human suffering. But the images coming out of the besieged Gaza Strip as the war between Israel and Hamas inches toward October’s two-year mark urge us to exclaim in the loudest possible voice: Enough! Men, women and children in Gaza are starving to death, and this atrocity against humanity must end.
New law will help families access America’s Catholic schools July 30, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Schools The groundbreaking new law deserves accolades for its recognition of the rights of parents, but there are significant questions about how it will be implemented at the federal and state levels
Holy See at the UN urges sustainable development as U.S. pulls out of UNESCO July 23, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered a statement at the general debate of the U.N. Economic and Social Council’s High-Level Political Forum July 22, the same day that the Trump administration said the U.S. would withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO.
Gaza’s Catholic pastor recalls ‘terrible’ attack as Parolin decries ‘war without limits’ July 21, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News Father Gabriel Romanelli, lightly injured in the leg during the Israeli military strike on the Holy Family Parish compound in the Gaza Strip July 17 told L’Osservatore Romano that what happened in the parish was “terrible” and that “the situation continues to be very serious.”
Myanmar opposition court sentences 9 men to 20 years for killing priest July 21, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A court affiliated with Myanmar’s exiled National Unity Government has sentenced nine men to 20 years in prison for the killing of a Catholic priest in the country’s conflict-torn Sagaing region earlier this year, according to Fides agency.
1 officer dead, 3 seminarians kidnapped after attack on Nigerian seminary July 15, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, World News In Nigeria’s Edo state, gunmen stormed Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi the night of July 10, killing a security officer and abducting three seminarians, according to Aid to the Church in Need.
Gaza’s Christian community persevering amid hardship and hope July 14, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News The parish priest of Gaza Strip’s small Christian community admitted his flock is exhausted by war and a severe lack of food.
