Global church leaders such as Pope Francis and the head of the World Council of Churches have joined international leaders on World Holocaust Remembrance Day calling for strong action against antisemitism and the danger of it morphing into other hate.
Often labelled the world's smallest army and founded under Pope Julius II, the Swiss Guards have celebrated 515 years guarding the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
COMECE President concerned for the erosion of Freedom of Religion in the Member States
In a statement published on Friday 22, January 2021, the President of COMECE, H. Em. Card. Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ, expresses concerns for...
COMECE meets with EU Commissioner Várhelyi: “the Mediterranean as a place of peaceful encounters”
A COMECE delegation met with Mr. Olivér Várhelyi, EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, on Monday 18 January 2021, to offer policy recommendations on a people-centred and fair future Southern...
The March for Life, bringing many thousands of people to Washington DC each year to protest abortion, is to be virtual this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and security concerns.
American megachurches are more racially and ethnically diverse than ever with more than half of them now having multiracial congregations, a new study from the Hartford Institute for Religious Research has found.
It's only a small village, but police in India's southern Karnataka state have placed a ban on 5 Christian families from gathering for worship services.
Violence mounted in Washington, DC on the day many Orthodox Christians celebrating Christmas Washington erupted into violence over the U.S. presidential election after a speech by President Donald Trump that said his election defeat was a fraud
Despite a national decline in religious observance, slightly over half of Britons continue to see the United Kingdom as a Christian country, but religiousness is low, a new study has found and it is very low in the 16-24 age group.
Three of them grabbed headlines often in the latter part of the year -- Amy Coney Barrett, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Anthony Fauci – and they were among the top Catholic newsmakers in 2020 named by a prominent Catholic review. America, the Jesuit Review said that the year that has just passed by was "12 months of a lot of bad news."
The president and vice president of the Liberty University's student body are speaking out about a center created by former University president Jerry Falwell, Jr. and an ardent Donald Trump supporter, Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and talk-show host.
Belarusian authorities allowed the Catholic archbishop of Minsk to return home for Christmas after lifting a four-month ban on him entering the country during the ongoing protesting against government actions.
A 2,000-year-old ritual bath dating to the time of Jesus has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists at Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed just before his crucifixion.
The inn rooms are empty in Bethlehem this year for the traditional Christmas celebrations as the Holy Land city battens hatches against the novel coronavirus pandemic at a time of the year it normally throngs with visitors.
COMECE addresses the EU Commission on Covid-19 strategy
“It is crucial to maintain the dialogue with Churches”
On the occasion of the last 2020 meeting of the COMECE Standing Committee on Tuesday 15 December 2020, the...
COMECE assesses the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum:
"put Human dignity and Common Good at the centre of the future negotiations"
In view of the International Migrants Day, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of...
The biggest crisis facing the evangelical, global church today is the growing lack of biblical literacy worldwide, Thomas Schirrmacher, the newly elected secretary-general of the World Evangelical Alliance says.
COMECE Legal Affairs Commission: children and their rights as a EU priority
The COMECE Legal Affairs Commission met on Thursday 3 December 2020 to exchange on current EU and national initiatives in the area of fundamental rights....
Hong Kong pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai, a committed Catholic, who has been denied ball after his court appearance has been charged under the territory's controversial new national security law described as political intimidation by a prominent clerical critic of Beijing.
Social Affairs Commission: “Towards a just social and green recovery”
The EU strategies for recovery from the ongoing Covid-19 and climate crisis was the main focus of discussion of the COMECE Social Affairs Commission, which was held online on Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1st December 2020, under the...
The United States has included Nigeria on a blacklist of nations where "systematic, ongoing, egregious religious freedom violations" are an issue of concern. The move could pave the way for potential sanctions in the future.
Christian geneticist Dr. Francis Collins is advising churches to avoid in-person services as countries around the world fight to bring COVID-19 rates down. The advice of the laureate of 2020 came as some religious leaders are pushing for the right to worship as the COVID-19 pandemic rages in the United States.
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“Faith, Science and Youth: A call for an ambitious climate summit”
On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement and in view of the upcoming Climate Ambition Summit 2020, the Vatican Covid-19...
Guess why Donald Trump did not lose by a landslide in the U.S. presidential election? Conservative Christians voted for him in big numbers. That is hardly surprising news, but their huge turnout for him as shown by a recent survey helps explain