News from outside of Canada.
September 1, 2026
Four years into a relentless war that has largely faded from news headlines, Ukraine is still facing a massive humanitarian crisis.
August 31, 2026
A U.S. Catholic bishop is calling on the international community to step up aid after devastating torrents of water and mud raged along the Nepal-China border, killing more than 580 with over 1,900 still missing.
August 27, 2026
Pope Leo XIV expressed his sadness by the devastation wrought by a glacial collapse in the Nepal-China border, causing a deadly wave of floods and mudslides that killed 168 people with hundreds more feared dead.
A deadly gang attack near Haiti's capital that saw dozens killed and kidnapped should cause the U.S. to "rethink" its ending of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.
The Vatican foreign minister urged Russian officials to end their war with Ukraine and to begin negotiations with the help of the international community.
August 25, 2026
Baptisms in the Catholic Church in Ireland have fallen by almost a third since 2015, with just one Irish diocese seeing any positive change, a new report shows.
Venezuelan Archbishop Jesús González de Zárate of Valencia had just finished celebrating Mass on the Feast of St. John the Baptist when the unthinkable happened.
August 24, 2026
All mosaics by disgraced priest Father Marko Rupnik adorning the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes will be covered ahead of Pope Leo XIV's September visit and will remain covered indefinitely.
August 20, 2026
Dozens of clergy from the Archdiocese of Bogotá embarked on a five-day pastoral mission to cities in Colombia devastated by the Aug. 10 earthquake.
August 19, 2026
Joseph Connor had his back turned to the large window of his 36th floor office when he “suddenly more felt than heard” the massive impact of a commercial jet slamming into the north tower of the World Trade Center half a kilometre away on Sept. 11, 2001.