Can Europe Erase a Baptism? A Legal Battle Puts Church Autonomy to the Test

Oct 07, 2026 17:41

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Advocate General Laila Medina Photo: YouTube

Bioethics•Local Church•Religious Freedom

The Catholic Church in Poland Takes a Stand on Surrogacy and Faces a Battle to Defend Religious Education Classes

The bishops’ objection goes far beyond the legal status of surrogacy. Their central concern is that the arrangement risks transforming both motherhood and childhood into objects of a contractual transaction.

Sep 09, 2026 10:26

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Marriage and Family•Religious Freedom

USA: Maine Supreme Court Rules Dad Can Forbid Mom From Taking Teen Christian to Church

Dr. David Closson, director of FRC’s Center for Biblical Worldview, described the ruling as “a serious threat to religious liberty,” in addition to threatening parental rights.

Sep 05, 2026 20:50

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Justice and Peace•Religious Freedom

How Beijing Turned Uyghur Childhood Into a State Project

Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor transfer.

Sep 04, 2026 20:19

ZENIT Staff

Religious Freedom

India: Bill Against Religious Conversions in Goa Withdrawn

Following objections from some MPs, the head of the local government has decided to withdraw the controversial bill from the Legislative Assembly’s agenda; like in other Indian states, the bill targeted “unlawful religious conversions”. Catholic leaders and representatives of other minority groups had expressed concern.

Sep 02, 2026 19:53

ZENIT Staff

Bioethics•Euthanasia•Religious Freedom

France legalizes euthanasia but also safeguards the right to conscientious objection

The decision does not overturn France’s legalization of euthanasia. Rather, it establishes a boundary around the institutions and individuals expected to participate in the new system—and, in doing so, gives religious freedom a significant foothold within a law that had initially offered little room for conscientious dissent

Aug 25, 2026 23:14

ZENIT Staff

What kind of Church do people encounter when they are at their most vulnerable? Leo XIV opens the conference on Amoris Laetitia by placing vulnerability at the center

Remarks by the Pope at the beginning of the meeting with the leaders of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of the episcopal conferences, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of “Amoris laetitia”

What is the Church’s mission in the contemporary world? Pope Leo XIV answers

Pope’s General Audience, October 7, 2026, on the Church’s Mission in the Contemporary World

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Can Europe Erase a Baptism? A Legal Battle Puts Church Autonomy to the Test

Bogota Court Rejects Religious-Neutrality Challenge to Colombia’s Presidential Inauguration

The Pentagon Grants Chaplains Greater Authority: U.S. Armed Forces to Strengthen Religious Support for Soldiers

Christian Educational Institutions in India Face Mounting Pressure

Sex education in Catholic schools sparks a dispute between parents and the bishop of Hamburg, with the Vatican looking on

Canadian Chaplains and the Boundaries of State Neutrality

Can Europe Force the Church to Erase a Baptism? A Belgian Case Puts Religious Freedom Before the EU Court

The Catholic Church in Poland Takes a Stand on Surrogacy and Faces a Battle to Defend Religious Education Classes

USA: Maine Supreme Court Rules Dad Can Forbid Mom From Taking Teen Christian to Church

How Beijing Turned Uyghur Childhood Into a State Project

India: Bill Against Religious Conversions in Goa Withdrawn

France legalizes euthanasia but also safeguards the right to conscientious objection