Kansas Catholic school building vandalized, defaced with swastikas July 14, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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.
At audience with martyr’s mother, pope prays for peace in Congo June 16, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News In the presence of the mother of the newly beatified martyr, Pope Leo XIV prayed that Blessed Floribert Bwana Chui would intercede to finally bring peace to Congo.
Prayers continue for release of abducted Nigerian priest who recently served in Alaska June 11, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Faithful on two continents are praying for the safe return of a Nigerian priest who once served in Alaska, and has been kidnapped in his home country.
Papal diplomats must always defend poor, religious freedom, pope says June 10, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News Every papal diplomat around the world must let people know that the Catholic Church is always on the side of the marginalized and is ready to face everything “out of love,” Pope Leo XIV said.
Washington state bishops ask court to block mandatory reporter law without Catholic confession protections June 9, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News, Worship & Sacraments The Catholic bishops of Washington state asked a federal court to block a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.
Supreme Court rules in favor of Wisconsin Catholic agency over religious exemption June 5, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 unanimously ruled in favor of the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, which had asked the high court to overturn a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court the agency argued discounted its religious identity.
Religious freedom in Russia continues to decline, say experts June 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News As Pope Leo XIV highlights the need for interreligious dialogue and diplomacy, religious liberty in Russia continues to decline, with the U.S. International Religious Freedom Commission citing that nation’s intensified use of blasphemy laws to silence freedom of expression.
FBI memo with ‘anti-Catholic terminology’ said to be distributed to over 1,000 FBI agents June 4, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Uncategorized, World News Amid an investigation into a controversial and retracted FBI memo that suggested some “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose threats of racial or ethnically motivated violence, a GOP senator alleged the FBI distributed the memo that “used anti-Catholic terminology” more widely than previously known.
As pilgrims flock to Ugandan shrine, authorities narrowly prevent massive terror attack June 4, 2025By Tonny Onyuolo OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News As millions of pilgrims flocked to the famed Ugandan shrine in Namugongo in the days leading to commemoration of the country’s 45 Christian martyrs, local authorities prevented an attempted terror attack in what they said was a swift secret service operation, possibly saving hundreds from imminent death.
Polish nuns beatified for heroic witness amid wartime horror June 2, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified — recognized as martyrs who gave their lives during the final, brutal months of World War II.
