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Arrests made following Christmas harassment incident at Catholic school in India

Death penalty

Protesters throw stones and shout slogans during a standoff with police outside the demolished residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s former leader and the father of the country’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after the verdict against Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Rajib Dhar/AP.)

Catholics oppose death penalty announced for former Bangladeshi leader

Nov 18
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Pope John Paul II gives the noon blessing in Perugia, Italy, October 26, 1986. (Credit: Gianni Foggia/Associated Press.)

Leo wasn’t contradicting John Paul II on ‘pro-life,’ he was echoing him

Nov 15
John L. Allen Jr.

Japan's death chamber. (Credit: AP.)

Cardinal calls for Japan to stop using the death penalty

Oct 15
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David (right) joins the Trillion Peso March against corruption in Quezon City, Philippines, September 21, 2025. (Credit: Diocese of Kalookan.)

Filipino cardinal rejects death penalty to ‘kill’ corrupt politicians

Sep 26
Joseph San Mateo

Papal rosary presented to Japanese boxer who was world’s longest death row inmate

Feb 26
Nirmala Carvalho

Congo priest wants ‘fair justice’ for human rights violations over ‘blood minerals’

Dec 13, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the South Lawn of the White House during a ceremony to commemorate World AIDS Day with survivors, their families and advocates, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Washington. (Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP.)

Francis pushes end to death penalty as Biden commutes 1500, but none on death row

Dec 13, 2024
Charles Collins

D.C. cardinal says being prolife is about more than just abortion

Oct 17, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Death penalty protesters are seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington Oct. 13, 2021. (Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters via CNS.)

Death row exoneration shows U.S. capital punishment is ‘broken’

Jul 4, 2024
John Lavenburg

Soldiers accused of rape and crimes against humanity slouch in their chairs during a military tribunal in the town of Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Feb. 16, 2011. Congo has lifted a more than two-decade old moratorium on the death penalty to try and rid the country of traitors and acts of “terrorism”, said the government. The moratorium, established in 2003, has allowed offenders accused of treachery and espionage, guaranteed impunity, said the justice ministry in a statement that emerged Friday, March 15, 2024. (Credit: Pete Muller/AP.)

DR Congo’s reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition

Mar 21, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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Arrests made following Christmas harassment incident at Catholic school in India

Dec 27
Nirmala Carvalho

Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

Dec 27
Ope Adetayo,
Tunde Omolehin, Associated Press

What to know about the militants targeted by US airstrikes in northwest Nigeria

Dec 26
Chinedu Asadu,
Associated Press

Trump orders US strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria

Dec 26
Ngala Killian Chimtom