Man arrested for vandalising Holy Cross church in Nicosia
A 27-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for illegal entry and causing malicious damage to the Holy Cross Catholic church in Nicosia.
The police received a complaint on Tuesday that ...
Italian teenager Carlo Acutis’ upcoming canonisation reflects the Vatican’s desire to appeal to a new generation of Catholics
By Michael A. Di Giovine
By The Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 of a rare form of leukemia at age 15, will soon become the Catholic Church’s first “...
Catholic bishop to be ordained in Nicosia
The newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Cyprus, Bruno Varriano, is set to be ordained in Nicosia on Saturday.
The ordainment comes two months after ...
Panama launches probe into missing Catholic cardinal, last seen 2 days ago
Prosecutors in Panama have launched an investigation into the whereabouts of Roman Catholic Cardinal Jose Luis Lacunza, according to a post on X, who has not been seen in two ...
President meets with church patriarchs
A high-level meeting to discuss the future of Christians in the Middle East is to be held in Cyprus, with the president meeting patriarchs ahead of the symposium.
President Nikos ...
In pope’s homeland of Argentina, court jails powerful bishop for sex abuse
A Catholic bishop accused of sexually abusing young men studying to be priests was found guilty by a court in northern Argentina on Friday, capping over a week of often ...
Pope says ashamed Church did not prioritise abuse victims in France
Pope Francis said on Wednesday he was saddened and ashamed by the Catholic Church’s inability to deal with sexual abuse of children in France and that the Church must ...
French clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950, probe finds (Update 2)
French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind ...
German archbishop offers to resign over Church’s sexual abuse ‘catastrophe’
One of Roman Catholicism’s most influential liberal figures, Germany’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx, has offered to resign as archbishop of Munich, saying he had to share responsibility for the “...