Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint James the Apostle. According to the Gospels, James and his brother John, along with Peter and his brother Andrew, were the first to be called by Jesus to follow ...

More than 250 people have taken shelter in a church as widespread attacks and bombardments continue in southern Syria.Between 60 and 70 families from different villages, including many Christians, ...

The Archbishop of Los Angeles, Most Rev José H Gomez, has got together with local business leaders to launch the Family Assistance Program - a new fund aimed at helping families affected by recent ...

CAFOD, Pax Christi, Christian Aid, Caritas, and Churches for Middle East Peace have joined more than 100 humanitarian and ...

Pope Leo condemned the arms trade, in a conversation with journalists last night shortly before he left his summer residence ...

At Subic Bay, a planned United States factory where missiles and drones would be assembled and ammunitions produced is feared to return Olongapo City to infamy as the sex-abuse capital of the ...

On the day the International Court of Justice delivered a landmark opinion saying countries have a legal duty to tackle ...

St Bridget of Sweden, by the Master of Soeterbeeck, Flemish, 1470 © Metropolitan Museum, New York, Gift of J Pierpont Morgan.

The Anglican Archbishop of York, Most Rev Stephen Cottrell has issued the following statement today: With each passing day in Gaza, the violence, starvation and dehumanisation being inflicted on the ...

The disciples came and said to Jesus, 'Why do you speak to them in parables?' And he answered them, 'To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been ...

More than 80 catechists, mostly from parishes in West London and Spelthorne, gathered with Cardinal Vincent Nichols last Saturday, for the first Jubilee Day for Catechists to be held this year. The ...

Dear Keir Starmer,As you must be aware, dreadful crimes are being committed by Israel in Gaza.I am told that our nation is actively supporting these crimes as an accessory, by providing spares for ...