Catholic Church

Millions of people worldwide are celebrating the main Christian holiday, Easter Sunday.

This year the Orthodox Christian Church and the Catholic Church are celebrating Easter on the same day. The next time when the two Churches share Easter celebrations will not occur until 2025.

A municipal councilor in Belene, northern Bulgaria, has launched a campaign against a Catholic priest as the latter decided to accept a Syrian family granted refugee status, Bulgarian media report.

The Syrians consider leaving for fear of their lives.

BELGRADE - Alojzije Stepinac, the man who supported the Ustasha regime, can be neither a saint nor hero, said Efraim Zuroff, director of the Center "Simon Wiesenthal", following the unveiling of the memorial to the bishop of the Catholic Church in Osijek.

"Standing together" against nationalism was the message of the event held on Monday evening by Bosnia's top religious leaders in an attempt to defuse tensions in the country.

The event saw Bosnia's Grand Mufti and the head of the Catholic Church in Bosnia share jokes with Bishop Grigorije of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Jakob Finci, president of the Jewish Community of Bosnia.

A Catholic nun in Spain has sparked outrage in the Catholic Church after suggesting that Virgin Mary might not have been a virgin after all. Sister Lucia Caram was speaking on a talk show over the weekend when she let slip her belief that contradicts one of the key pillars of her faith.

A book revealing widespread child molestation and a cover-up by Pope Francis of sexual abuses in the Catholic Church, which will be released on January 19, is expected to cause new controversy.

The Catholic Church's decision to replace its annual reception for officials with a charity lunch for people in poverty has been welcomed by Christians in Albania as an example of the genuine spirit of the Christmas season.

The legal brotherhood of monks in charge of the 1,000-year-old Esphigmenou Monastery in the self-governed monastic community of Mount Athos, near Thessaloniki, are demanding more than 3 million euros from the Greek state to compensate for damage wrought by some 100 fundamentalist monks who occupied the site in the 1970s and have remained there ever since.

Defence witnesses at the trial of former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias ‘Captain Dragan’, admitted that Croatian soldiers used Catholic church premises as a command post.

On Monday, Pope Francis extended the power of Roman Catholic priests to forgive the “grave sin” of abortion, in what has been described by some as a “signature gesture” from the Catholic Church’s just-ended Jubilee Year of Mercy.

The power to forgive abortion was a right previously reserved only for bishops or special confessors.