Irish lay missionary, child among several kidnapped from orphanage in Haiti August 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Missions, News, World News A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation’s long-running armed gang violence and instability.
West Virginia bishop warns on immigration: ‘The final judge of our actions is God’ August 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., is urging the people of his state to “affirm the humanity of all immigrants, regardless of legal status.”
Peace, disarmament begin in the heart, said Archbishop Broglio August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the nation’s Catholic bishops.
Mass celebrated at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for detained Catholic migrants August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Generative AI poses new threats of child sexual abuse, experts say August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: AI, Child & Youth Protection, News, World News With Pope Leo XIV prioritizing the issue of artificial intelligence, one expert warned OSV News that generative AI poses serious — and largely unaddressed — threats to child safety, by accelerating the creation and distribution of child sex abuse material, or CSAM.
Experts see US UNESCO exit as blow to historic preservation for churches, other sites August 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations’ cultural agency comes just weeks ahead of a Catholic UNESCO World Heritage site anniversary celebration — and the exit stands to erode historic preservation efforts more broadly, experts told OSV News.
Against the odds, CRS has delivered aid to 1.7 million in Gaza since 2023 August 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News Despite daunting odds, Catholic Relief Services and its on-the-ground partners have managed to deliver aid to 1.7 million people in Gaza since 2023, according to new data.
Pope paves way for St. John Henry Newman to be formally named doctor of the church July 31, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope paves way for St. John Henry Newman to be formally named doctor of the church
US prelates head to Japan on ‘Pilgrimage of Peace’ amid nuclear fears old and new July 30, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts — several U.S. Catholic bishops will travel to Japan on a “Pilgrimage of Peace.”
Pope Leo meets with top Russian Orthodox cleric amid war, strained relations July 29, 2025By Gina Christian Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
‘Never get used to violence,’ says NY cardinal after mass shooting in building near St. Patrick’s July 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News “We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, following a deadly mass shooting in that city that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer.
Cardinal Tomasi: Religious communities can play key roles in nuclear disarmament July 28, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Religious communities can “contribute to the global architecture of disarmament and restraint” in several “specific ways” that foster dialogue, prevention and accountability, said Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, a longtime Vatican diplomat and disarmament advocate.
