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Religious Freedom

When nuns perished during adoration in wartime Warsaw, white doves rose into sky

August 8, 2025
By Alina Petrowa-Wasilewicz
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News

The wartime story of the heroic nuns from Warsaw begins during the uprising in August 1944, when their convent became a site of both faith and tragedy.

‘Free Gena,’ plead colleagues of kidnapped Irish missionary in Haiti

August 6, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions — including a 3-year-old child — taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, amid the Caribbean nation’s long-running armed gang violence and political instability.

Indian nuns released on conditional bail; advocates, superiors call their arrest ‘unlawful’

August 5, 2025
By 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.

Kidnapped Nigerian priest who served in Alaska freed

July 22, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A Nigerian priest kidnapped by Boko Haram in June has been released, OSV News has learned.

Huckabee demands Israel punish settlers for ‘act of terror’ on West Bank church

July 21, 2025
By Judith Sudilovsky
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Religious Freedom, World News

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called the desecration of any holy place an “act of terror” and a “crime” that required “harsh consequences,” following a visit to the West Bank village of Taybeh.

Myanmar opposition court sentences 9 men to 20 years for killing priest

July 21, 2025
By 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.

FBI to investigate anti-Catholic, antisemitic vandalism at Pittsburgh area church

July 21, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Newly installed Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh has expressed his “great sorrow” over “hateful vandalism” at one of his parish churches, which federal authorities are now investigating.

Proof of life for kidnapped Nigerian priest received by Alaska diocese where he served

July 17, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

A kidnapped Nigerian priest, who previously served in Alaska, has managed to contact his home diocese, OSV News has learned.

Mahmoud v. Taylor: A Supreme Court victory for parents, freedom

July 17, 2025
By Jason Adkins
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court

In a momentous decision that has far-reaching implications for the future of public education and religious liberty in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that parents, not the state, hold the primary right to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

Kansas Catholic school building vandalized, defaced with swastikas

July 14, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A Catholic school building in Kansas has been extensively vandalized, with the perpetrators defacing the property with swastikas.

Radio Interview: Religious freedom faces ongoing challenges

June 24, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Religious Freedom

Aaron Weldon, Assistant Director for Religious Liberty at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, talks with George Matysek about ongoing challenges to religious freedom and what will happen during Religious Freedom Week.

Religious Liberty Commission examines imperiled Native American sacred site, mandatory reporter law

June 17, 2025
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Key religious liberty challenges facing Americans include the threat of the destruction to an Apache sacred site by a copper mining giant, as well as a new law in Washington state requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege, said witnesses at the inaugural meeting of the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission on June 16.

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