Cardinal Dolan sharply rebukes surging religious hatred in U.S. amid Israel-Hamas war November 2, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has issued a sharp rebuke against surging religious hatred in the U.S. amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Ukrainian faith leaders say if Russia prevails, religious freedoms would be curtailed November 2, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News If Russian President Vladimir Putin prevails in his invasion of Ukraine, religious freedom in the country would be curtailed, Ukrainian faith leaders said at a recent event at the United States Institute of Peace.
Vatican at U.N.: Risk of nuclear war is ‘at its highest in generations’ September 27, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News Speaking Sept. 26 during a high-level meeting on the elimination of nuclear weapons at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, called eliminating nuclear weapons a “moral imperative.”
English police apologize to woman arrested for silently praying outside abortion facility September 25, 2023By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News Police in England have apologized to a Catholic woman six months after she was arrested for praying silently outside an abortion facility.
House lawmakers grill Garland over retracted FBI memo on ‘radical traditionalist Catholics’ September 22, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Congress, World News Attorney General Merrick Garland was questioned about a controversial and retracted FBI memo that suggested some “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose threats of racial or ethnically motivated violence during Sept. 20 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
Appeals court finds Christian student athlete group should be reinstated as public school club September 15, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, Sports, World News The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 9-2 decision that the San Jose Unified School District likely violated the Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ First Amendment right to free exercise of religion when it revoked its status as a recognized high school student club.
Appeals court says Catholic group can install Stations of the Cross ‘prayer trail’ September 13, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Plans for the “Casa USA” campus — with backing from other Catholic health care organizations, individuals and the patronage of Lansing Bishop Earl A. Boyea — call for duplicating Padre Pio’s hospital complex for the first time outside of Italy, including an exact replica of the original friary church of the Capuchin Franciscan who is also known as St. Pius of Pietrelcina.
Seminarian is burned to death in Nigeria in endless cycle of violence against Christians September 13, 2023By Ngala Killian Chimton OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News In an endless cycle of violence against Christians in Nigeria, seminarian Na’Aman Danlami Stephen of the Diocese of Kafanchan was burned to death on Sept. 7 when a terrorist group called Fulani herdsmen attacked the rectory at St. Raphael Church in Fadan Kamantan.
Howard County lawsuit focuses on exclusion of Catholic school students September 11, 2023By Emily Rosenthal Alster Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Religious Freedom, Schools A federal lawsuit that supporters say aims to bring justice to Catholic school students in Howard County is headed to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this fall.
Lawmaker, bishop urge action as 120,000 Armenians face ‘ethnic cleansing’ September 7, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A U.S. lawmaker and a Catholic bishop are calling for action to end a months-long blockade that has left some 120,000 ethnic Armenians at risk of what he and other experts are calling “genocide by starvation.”
Parents ask appeals court to allow an opt-out from school books with LGBTQ+ themes August 31, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News An interfaith group of Maryland parents has asked a federal appeals court to allow them to opt their children out of classroom instruction pertaining to books containing LGBTQ+ themes to which they object on religious grounds.
Society of Jesus banned in Nicaragua August 24, 2023By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits’ legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for the Society of Jesus to operate in the Central American country.
