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Religious Freedom

Amid horrors of Holocaust, Polish Franciscan mother superior saved hundreds of Jewish children

January 27, 2025
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

On Jan. 27, as the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau — where 216,000 Jewish children, among 231,000 children from various nations, perished, Mother Matylda was being remembered as a beacon of hope in the midst of Nazi horrors and as one that saved hundreds of Jewish children.

Bishops across Europe remember Holocaust victims, urge world to fight rising antisemitism

January 27, 2025
By 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.

Holocaust survivor honors Polish priest who aided his family

January 27, 2025
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Because of the quiet and heroic intervention of a Polish priest, Andrew Jampoler’s life was saved just as it began. Jampoler, 83, feels a strong debt of gratitude to Father Jozef Czapran who protected him as an infant in Eastern Poland by providing lifesaving papers for him and his family.

Poland’s church deplores government curbs on religious teaching, with lessons cut in half

January 26, 2025
By 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.

Philly priest: New immigration arrest policy threatens freedom to worship

January 24, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A Philadelphia priest has called new Trump administration policies on immigration arrests a threat to the church’s religious freedom and people’s right to worship without fear.

Cardinal urges restraint as retaliatory attacks ignite after killings of South Sudanese refugees

January 21, 2025
By Frederick Nzwili
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla of Juba, South Sudan, called for restraint and compassion, as the alleged killings of South Sudanese refugees in the war-torn Sudan sparked retaliatory attacks across the country.

U.S. bishops report flags 5 top areas of ‘critical concern’ on religious liberty

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

A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty.

U.S. declares genocide in Sudan as country undergoes ‘unimaginable’ suffering

January 16, 2025
By Frederick Nzwili
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Amid what a Catholic charity called “unimaginable” suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United States declared that one of the fighting factions is committing genocide in the country and slapped sanctions on its leader.

Christian persecution on the rise worldwide, new report says

January 15, 2025
By Junno Arocho Esteves
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A new report by Open Doors International said that more than 380 million Christians faced persecution and discrimination in 2024, an increase of 15 million from the year before.

Russia killing clergy, banning religions in occupied Ukraine, says foreign minister

January 13, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News

Since the start of their February 2022 full-scale invasion, Russian forces have killed close to 70 clergy and destroyed more than 630 places of worship in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs.

Calls multiply for release of kidnapped Nigerian nuns; security in region dramatically deteriorates

January 13, 2025
By Ngala Killian Chimton
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Calls have multiplied in Nigeria for the release of Sister Vincentia Maria Nwankwo and Sister Grace Mariette Okoli. Both religious were kidnapped Jan. 7 along Ufuma Road as they returned from their vocational associations’ meeting held in Ogboji, a town in Anambra state.

Bishops call for Venezuelan vote to be respected

January 10, 2025
By David Agren
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Venezuela’s bishops called for the country’s electoral decision to be respected on the eve of the Jan. 10 inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro, whose victory in the July 28 election is disputed by the opposition and not recognized by the United States.

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