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Calling nuclear weapons immoral, Archbishop Wester urges halt to production of plutonium pits

Archbishop John Wester challenged the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s position that increased pit production complies with the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

White House official promotes faith-based drug abuse prevention and recovery programs

A new Office of National Drug Control Policy report emphasizes the important role of faith-based partnerships.

Religious freedom division restored at U.S. health agency’s civil rights office

The office was dissolved in 2023 under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Uganda postpones Martyrs’ Day celebrations over Ebola fears

In a press release obtained by ACI Africa, Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said the decision follows consultations with key stakeholders in the east African nation.

Nigeria Catholic hospital fire leaves Marian statue untouched, draws non-Catholics to prayer

A fire at the Mother of Christ Specialist Hospital in the Diocese of Enugu broke out on May 12, causing vast damage — but a Marian statue was left untouched amid the flames.

Indian Catholics denied bail after confronting mob that disrupted Mass

Nine parishioners face conversion and attempted murder charges after forcing out intruders who stormed a village church during Mass in Rajasthan.

From Budapest to Princeton, Catholic scholars mobilize to reconnect faith and political life

CatholicPOST seeks to restore Catholic social doctrine to its rightful place in intellectual life and academic discussion.

In Bangladesh, Caritas project puts Laudato Si’ into practice for poor families

As the global Church marks Laudato Si' Week, a Caritas project in a remote corner of Bangladesh shows what the late Pope Francis' encyclical looks like on the ground.

Malaysia’s Cardinal Francis: Asian diversity is an asset, not a threat

Cardinal Sebastian Francis, Archbishop of Penang in Malaysia, speaks to Vatican News about the "vibrant" Church in the region, and warns against adopting a ‘minority complex’.

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Nerses Shnorhali: Great 'pioneer of ecumenism' in the Christian East

As he meets with Armenian Catholicos Aram I, Pope Leo XIV says Nerses Shnorhali, a 12th-century Catholicos of the Armenian Church, has been inserted in the Roman Martyrology, calling it an example of "ecumenism of the saints."

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