Blog by the Sea reports:La-Croix (through AFP) has reported that Pope Benedict XVI today signed the decree of the "miracle of the child" allowing the beatification of the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The announcement was made in a

The call for service is part of a flag-draped week focused on God, country, veterans and freedom. They are larger-than-life themes, all prominent in the successful campaigns of President Bush and aimed at introducing Obama to Americans who know little

The report estimated that religious groups took home $102.3 billion, the greatest share of charitable giving in 2007 among the nine types of charities mentioned in the study. Religious congregations received one-third of the $306.4 billion that went toward U.S.

FreedomFest, which was held this year at Florida Classic Park in Brooksville, Fla., featured popular Christian musician Matthew West and Christian artist Rob Taylor, a former offensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After "what can be described as a façade election", the World Council of Churches has called for global action and the protection of Zimbabweans "against increased and continued violence".

Echoing remarks made early this year by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Justice has said that there is no conflict between Sharia principles for conflict resolution and civil law.

German churches' practical experience with confronting the issue of domestic violence will play an important role in a Peace Declaration of the World Council of Churches planned for 2011.

The Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, a leading Evangelical Anglican bishop in the Church of England has said that the tactics of a new factional network within Anglicanism amount to "bullying".

Harare (Agenzia Fides) As the crisis in Zimbabwe becomes more complicated, its neighbor Botswana has decided to place troops on the border so as to face any military attack that could erupt due to political disorder and tensions in Zimbabwe.

Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) "Fr. Johnson was a Salesian in his early sixties, a very committed priest, an excellent religious, a person with great compassion for the poor and the marginalized. In the past, at the mission in Nepal, he had

Luanda (Agenzia Fides) While the price of unrefined oil rising to over 145 dollars a barrel, Angola has announced a plan to increase its own oil production over the next 5 years. "We will invest 100 billion dollars in 5

In the last encyclical, almost a last will and testament, of the Holy Father John Paul II, of holy memory, entitled Ecclesia de Eucharistia we read at paragraph 11: " The Church has received the Eucharist from Christ her Lord

Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) Fourteen students from St Paul' University in the United States who are working with Beijing University on a social experience programme, recently visited a Home for the Elderly run by Catholic sisters and a Chinese

Sydney (Agenzia Fides) On Sunday 29 June Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, laid the foundation stone for another Redemptoris Mater Seminary which the Neo Catechumen Way are building on Chester Hill, in the archdiocese of Sydney. "The Way is

Karachi (Agenzia Fides) For the Year of Saint Paul the Catholic Church in Pakistan will focus on formation and on mission involving priests, religious and lay Catholics. A major initiative consists of two formation seminars on the Letters of St

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) Today 3 July at 5pm in St Peter's Basilica, His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of His Holiness, will ordain Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, recently appointed Secretary adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of

The Holy Father today received in private audience Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised the promulgation of decrees concerning the following: a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed, Fr.

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) " Paul the Apostle, a noble and practically inimitable figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to Lord's Church, as well as broad openness to humanity and its cultures.

The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Mgr Ambrogio Spreafico, until now rector of the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Coadjutor Bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino, granting him the faculties of a diocesan Ordinary. Mgr Ambrogio Spreafico was born on 26