France legalizes euthanasia but also safeguards the right to conscientious objection

Aug 25, 2026 23:14

Catholic hospitals, nursing homes and palliative-care institutions will not automatically have to facilitate euthanasia or assisted suicide

Local Church•Religious Freedom

Cameroon Announces the Closure of 1,400 Revivalist Churches

A Pentecostal woman killed her daughter. A minister used the tragedy as a pretext to crack down on local Pentecostals.

Aug 20, 2026 22:46

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Bishop Who Disappeared Under the Nicaraguan Dictatorship Reappears on Camera, but Questions Mount

The video surfaced shortly after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to expand protective measures for Mata and four people associated with him, describing the situation as one of extreme gravity and a potential risk of irreparable harm

Aug 14, 2026 13:14

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

Israel Declares the Only Entirely Christian City in the Holy Land a “Closed Military Zone”

For Taybeh’s Christian community, protection will be measured not by the announcement but by whether armed settlers are actually prevented from entering private property, damaging farmland and intimidating residents

Aug 13, 2026 10:36

ZENIT Staff

Holy Land•Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

The Christian Presence in the Holy Land Is Being Squeezed from Every Direction

The central question is therefore not simply whether Christianity can survive in the Holy Land. It is whether the international community will accept a future in which the ancient Christian communities of the region remain only as monuments, while the people who gave those places their living meaning are gradually forced to leave

Jul 22, 2026 14:07

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

The United Kingdom bars a Finnish lawmaker from entering the country after she posted a biblical quote opposing gender ideology

Her electronic travel authorisation, initially approved, was revoked shortly after Finland’s Supreme Court confirmed a conviction against her for “insulting a group” in a decades‑old pamphlet on marriage and sexuality

Jul 18, 2026 08:46

Elizabeth Owens

Pope Leo XIV personally ordered his Dicastery for Communication to stop using works by the former Jesuit Rupnik, according to the bishop of Lourdes

The Vatican quietly removed the images in June, a decision that initially came without an official explanation. Micas’s account now provides an explanation for that change and portrays Leo as having taken a deliberate position on an issue that had become increasingly difficult for the Church to treat simply as a question of artistic preference

Leo XIV Reforms the Code of Canon Law: Synods May Remove the Patriarch or Major Archbishop in Eastern Catholic Churches

The reform, contained in the apostolic letter issued on August 29 under the title Mutua Concordia, changes canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It took effect immediately

France legalizes euthanasia but also safeguards the right to conscientious objection

Court Excludes Spiritual Direction from the Legal Protection Afforded to the Sacrament of Confession

Massachusetts Court Blocks Catholic Saints’ Statues at Public Safety Building

Nigerian Court Rules Religious Police Cannot Arrest Christian Woman for Converting from Islam

Iraq’s Court of Cassation affirms woman’s right to be classified as Christian in state’s official database

Canadian Army Bans Service Members from Invoking God: Here’s the Catholic Church’s Response

What does the Mexican Catholic Church say about MORENA’s reform, which aims to censor news reports in the media?

Cameroon Announces the Closure of 1,400 Revivalist Churches

Bishop Who Disappeared Under the Nicaraguan Dictatorship Reappears on Camera, but Questions Mount

Israel Declares the Only Entirely Christian City in the Holy Land a “Closed Military Zone”

The Christian Presence in the Holy Land Is Being Squeezed from Every Direction

The United Kingdom bars a Finnish lawmaker from entering the country after she posted a biblical quote opposing gender ideology