Vatican News

A Malaysian court on Monday charged a man with exploiting 63 Indonesian women who claimed they were lured to Malaysia and forced to work as house ...»

On the second day of his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom, Pope Benedict will meet with representatives of nine different faith groups present ...»

For the first time ever 4 tapestries designed for the Sistine Chapel by the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael have gone on display alongside their ...»

One of the Beatles came home one afternoon to to find his mother clutching a set of rosary beads and praying . She had just been told she had an ...»

Military-run Burma's top leader General Than Shwe arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a state visit to China, his country's closest ally.

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The South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference is voicing serious concern about the wisdom and the constitutionality of the Protection of ...»

A month-long public sector labour action in South Africa is spreading into the private sector, with miners announcing a strike of their own.
A ...»

France hosted an 'immigration' summit today, inviting the interior ministers from Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK , Greece, and Canada.

The ...»

A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 19 people in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda- ...»

The Vatican says it is closely following the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and may pursue diplomacy to ...»

Leo XIII has gone down in history as the first pope ever to have written a social encyclical.
It was 1891 and the title of this document was ...»

A Vatican expert on Catholic-Anglican relations says the sight of the Pope praying side by side with the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster ...»

In the South Korean capital yesterday, the Vatican-sponsored Congress for Lay Catholics in Asia concluded with a Mass in Seoul Cathedral.

Fr ...»

Pope Benedict XVI marked the second centenary of the birth of the man who became Pope Leo XIII on Sunday, with a trip to his predecessor's ...»

Energy giant BP has successfully replaced a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well.

The April 20th blowout ...»

(4 Sept 10 - RV) The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on two Shi'ite rallies that killed 33 people in Lahore on ...»

(4 Sept 10 - RV) A Taliban commander was captured and six insurgents killed in a raid on a rebel hide-out in northern Afghanistan ...»

(4 Sep 10 - RV) Thousands of people are demonstrating in Paris against new government security measures, including a crackdown on the Gypsy ...»

In his weekly editorial Fr Federico Lombardi S.J reflects ‘Hopes for peace’ in the Middle East: ...»