The intention to change "is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the Eucharist as long as there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin."

The company called the religion argument a "last-minute delay tactic."

On conservative radio show, Archbishop Chaput says "elites" in the media are hostile to voters of faith.

The Economic Freedom Fighters party say it will not respect an “illegitimate president” after Mr. Zuma was found to have violated his office by the country’s highest court in 2016.

In North Africa, migrants from sub-Saharan Africa now make up a large proportion of Catholic communities.

Russian and Polish studies indicate that 422 Catholic priests were executed, murdered or tortured to death, along with 962 monks, nuns and laypeople.