UPDATED, with White House statement: California Governor Gavin Newsom fired back at Donald Trump after CNN reported that the ...

Islamists have kidnapped 15 religious ministers this year already, and tragically two of them have been killed.

Aid to the Church in Need said the Nigerian-born priest is the 15th religious to be kidnapped in Nigeria this year.

Church officials say a Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travelers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state ...

The papal charity Aid to the Church in Need reported on Thursday that Maiduguri Auxiliary Bishop John Bagna Bakeni said the priest was taken on Sunday, June 1. Afina and two others were ...

Cathedral of the Holy Angels: 640 Tyler St. — Bishop Robert J. McClory will ordain Deacon Alexander Kouris, 28, and Deacon Ivan Alatorre, 26, as Roman Catholic priests to serve the Diocese of ...

Kevin Doran, Bishop of Achonry and Elphin, has announced clerical changes to the parishes of Charlestown and Ballaghaderreen.These include the appointment of Fr John Maloney Adm, Attymas, as Parish ...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik has resigned, the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh announced. According to a release ...

The Pope accepted Bishop David Zubik's retirement resignation and has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Mark Eckman as the next bishop.

On June 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., seven Dominican brothers ...

Bishop Mark A. Eckman has been appointed the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, succeeding Bishop David A. Zubik. The ...