Madalaine Elhabbal

Declining wages among working-class men are not the main driver of marriage decline in America, the report said.

CRS is partnering with Caritas medical centers across seven Catholic dioceses, along with the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.

By Madalaine Elhabbal Adjumani, 20 May, 2026 / 12:38 pm (ACI Africa).

Twenty-one diocesan officials lobbied Congress on housing, food insecurities, and other poverty-related issues.

“Current federal investments in housing programs do not meet the great need we see in our country,” said a joint letter by the bishops and leaders of two Catholic charitable groups.

Catholic leaders protest a new law in Israel expanding capital punishment for Palestinians, Bangladesh bans finding out the sex of babies in the womb, and more in this week’s world news roundup.

"Central Nigeria remains entrenched in an intense, daily, and seemingly perpetual crisis of insecurity," the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said in a recent report.

Pope Leo receives praise from Spain’s chief executive, Catholic and Coptic dialogue resumes, a Catholic agency in South Sudan issues an Ebola alert, and more in this week’s roundup of world news.

“Everything has to be vetted by the government, especially what priests are going to preach on Sunday," said Rosalia Gutierrez-Huete Miller in a panel discussion on human rights in Nicaragua.

While the main role of port chaplains with Stella Maris is to celebrate Mass and the sacraments aboard ships, their work includes providing counsel and aid to sailors, Bishop Frank Schuster said.