At the same time, some 5,500 miles away in Maine, Stephen Rasche, an international transactions lawyer, was recuperating from ...

For many Christians around the world, owning a Bible is illegal. It can cost a believer their freedom or even their life. Yet ...

Thirteen Southern Baptist ethnic groups representing 10,900 churches have issued a joint statement on immigration calling for ...

Preparations for popular, often daylong Lent and Holy Week processions are underway across Latin America — but not in ...

The fourth part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church contains the Church’s universal teaching on prayer and the spiritual ...

Catholic refugee programs in the U.S. have been reeling since President Donald Trump froze federal funding after returning to ...

The bishops’ program was the largest of 10 national resettlement groups whose contracts were suspended in January by the ...

This is Viaticum, food for the journey. Members of the local Church may wish to join the family in a vigil of prayer. After the person's death, the family is encouraged to continue in prayer ...

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests ... and show them that they are needed by the Church; they are needed by souls; they are needed for the work ...

Further reading: A record 365 million Christians persecuted worldwide ... This term, which translates to "public space," denotes a church without a priest. There were nearly 550 of them in ...

"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned ... In one remote Indian village a church congregation managed to 'out-worship' a gang ...