Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church

The closure occurred in a context of growing political debates around the challenges posed by the expansion of Islam in the country.

“We are a bastion of faith that loudly proclaims the value of the faith in the building of a country,” said Bishop Ramón Valdivia, Ceuta’s apostolic administrator.

The Ceuta border separates two radically different socioeconomic realities.

A wealthy Catholic investor near Munich is paying 500 euros for every baptism, and the Diocese of Augsburg is not entirely comfortable with it.

“Every day there are attacks against the Most Holy Virgin in many ways,” noted Father Manuel Navarro.

After a troubled youth and a powerful conversion experience, Polish national Bartłomiej “Bartek” Krakowiak has been arrested and charged with acts of vandalism at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje.

In an Aug. 2 message, Archbishop Luis Argüello said: “Biopolitics is key to current global power.”

A new book tells the stories of Catholics who survived persecution during the Spanish Civil War.

An illicit ordination in Scotland leads to excommunication, nuns flee monastery in Spain wildfires, priest asks for prayers as Gaza, and more in this week’s Catholic world news roundup.

For the seventh time in two years, churches in the Archdiocese of Tours have been desecrated.