Church and World Events

Church and World Events

Ireland celebrates 1500th anniversary of the death of its patroness On February 1, Ireland celebrated the 1500th anniversary of the death of St. Brigid of...

Church and World Events

Monastery reopened after seven hundred years Seven hundred years after abandoning the region, Catholic monks have returned to re-found the Trappist abbey in Munkeby, Norway,...

Church and World Events

New record number of pilgrims in Compostela By the beginning of November 2023, the Way of St. James of Compostela had received more than 438,300...

Church and World Events

Marian devotion grows in Bangladesh The Catholic community in Bangladesh is experiencing a surge in devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Rosary,...

Church and World Events

Religious life on the border with North Korea On one of the world’s most dangerous borders, a group of nuns from the Visitation Order prays...

Church and World Events

Church remains unscathed after fires in Hawaii The devastating wildfires that ravaged Hawaii and destroyed more than two thousand buildings in the town of Lahaina,...

Church and World Events

Fire consumes incorrupt body of St. Benedict The church attached to the Convent of Santa Maria di Gesù, located on the slopes of Mount Grifone...

Church and World Events

Exhibition of works by Viollet-le-Duc The Museum of Fine Arts in the medieval city of Carcassonne in southern France opened an exhibition in June dedicated...

Church and World Events

Massive tribute to the Virgin of the Forsaken On the occasion of the centennial of the canonical coronation of the Virgin of the Forsaken, twelve...

Church and World Events

Devotion or tourism at Santiago de Compostela? Moved by faith, over seventy thousand people walked the historic route of Santiago de Compostela in the year...

Church and World Events

Less religion, more suicides A study conducted by Tyler Vanderweele, professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, shows that lack of religiosity is one of the...

Church and World Events

Amid tragedy, a sign of hope The catastrophic earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale that struck Turkey on February 6 left tens of...