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The Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, confirms that Joseph Czuba, the man charged with killing a 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim Wadea al-Fayoume and injuring the boy's mother, is a member of a local Catholic Church parish.
2023-10-17

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson marries political activist Carrie Symonds in a private ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. Approximately 30 people were in attendance.
2021-05-29

In the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, 100 Hindu activists attack a prayer gathering in the Catholic media center.
2021-01-27

Catholic bishops in Australia reject a recommendation from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that would force priests by law to report abuse to the police when they hear about it in confession.
2018-08-31

The Roman Catholic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is damaged by a suspected arson attack.
2015-06-18

The Church of England adopts legislation paving the way for the appointment of female bishops.
2014-11-17

An Irish archbishop claims the Catholic Church has no records on the burial of 796 children in a disused concrete septic tank at a building it runs in Tuam.
2014-06-5

Giving his first audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis tells journalists he wants "a poor Church, for the poor".
2013-03-16

Catholic figurehead Seán Brady's intervention in Ireland's abortion debate draws harsh criticism from legislators and more calls for the Church to transfer the rest of the compensation it promised for those abused by priests, but has not yet paid.
2012-12-27

Iraqi police raid the Sayidat al-Nejat Catholic Church in the Karrada district of Baghdad where gunmen were holding a hundred hostages resulting in seven hostages being killed and twenty injured.
2010-10-31