State‑controlled bishops and clergy are instructed to preach Party documents, while Vatican teaching remains absent.
Catholic Church
No Real Freedom for the Catholic Church in China
After the 2018 agreement, pressure on Chinese Catholics is escalating amid apparent indifference from the Vatican, a Human Rights Watch Report says.
Quebec’s Bill 9: When Secularism Treats Religion as a Problem
A sweeping prohibition on prayer, worship, and faith‑based identity in public life raises profound constitutional and human rights concerns
Catholic Bishops Denounce Atrocities in Eastern DR Congo: What Exactly Is Happening and Why?
30 years of wars, in part a by-product of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, created a situation that seems impossible to solve.
Pakistan: How Judges Protect Forced Conversions to Islam and Child Marriage
In the case of Maria Bibi, the Federal Constitutional Court declared a child an adult, a minor a wife, and a conversion a passport out of the law.
France, Famille Missionnaire de Notre-Dame: When Ninety Percent Is Not Enough
Despite broad acquittals, the lone conviction for “psychological subjection” risks turning France’s justice system into an arbiter of acceptable spirituality.
The Fear of the Jesuits in 17th-century Poland and Lithuania: The First “Cult” Panic
An exploration of anti-Jesuit polemics reveals a much older genealogy behind today’s campaigns against groups branded as outsiders, manipulators, or “cults.”
When Faith Goes on Trial: France Accuses the Famille Missionnaire de Notre-Dame of “Brainwashing”
The trial of a Catholic community under flexible ideas of “abuse of weakness” reveals how French anti-cult laws may target almost anyone.
Lettera di Natale del Primate della Chiesa greco-cattolica ucraina
“Davanti a noi non c’è solo una guerra, ma un omicidio di massa deliberato, sistematico, calcolato e tecnologicamente sofisticato di innocenti”.
A Christmas Letter from the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Before us is not just a war, but a deliberate, systematic, calculated, and technologically sophisticated mass murder of innocents.