Thousands of pilgrims have gathered in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the People’s ...

But scattered in Europe's more remote corners are numerous small churches that tell their own stories of greatness, often being sites connected to major historical events we might be familiar with, ...

ROME – With European elections just three months away, the continent’s bishops have joined other Christian churches in lamenting that the Christian principles on which Europe was founded are either ...

According to Aid to the Church in Need, in 2023, France recorded nearly 1,000 attacks on churches, and more than 600 acts of vandalism were documented in Greece.

Growing up in the UK, photographer Jamie McGregor Smith was familiar with traditional churches and their historic architecture. But in 2018, when McGregor Smith and his family moved to Vienna, Austria ...

Those of us sitting in the pews as our bishops deliver thinly-veiled social justice diatribes must work to empower ...

Five-hundred shoeboxes have been filled with Christmas presents for children in Eastern European countries. Volunteers at St ...

The Nairobi-based Vatican diplomat, who has also been representing the Holy Father in South Sudan, highlighted the need to seek God’s mercy as important and implored: “Let us confidently approach the ...

These are obviously dark days for the Roman Catholic Church. For over a decade, the U.S. church has been assailed by abuse charges and devastated by the resulting litigation. The Vatican used to ...

The 2025 biennial report provides a global overview of the state of religious freedom affecting all faith communities in 196 ...

The Church in Africa, which for many years was considered a missionary territory, has evolved and is growing “stronger” compared with the Church in Europe, which seems to have “weakened,” according to ...