Abortions in England and Wales have hit a record level, according to statistics released by the British government.

Vandals and thieves have damaged at least eight Christian churches in Germany since early April.

An Islamic militant has posted a video on the internet boasting that he has arrived in Canada to kill Asia Bibi.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, has made an urgent appeal to the young people of his country to abandon gangs, gang violence and the use of knives. "Knife crime" is at its highest since records started being kept since 1946 and Catholic clergy in Britain are focusing on how to divert youth from such destructive social behavior.

Britain is in an "amazing political mess" over Brexit, an English bishop said.

The head of a Catholic order that runs homes for psychiatric patients welcomed the first prosecutions of Belgian doctors for an illegal act of euthanasia.

A Catholic bishop has praised a decision by the British government not to impose exclusion zones around abortion clinics throughout the country.

A global synod on priests could help the church to end the "terrible" scandals of clerical child abuse, an English bishop told Pope Francis.

Britain's highest court has ruled that doctors can withdraw food and fluid from patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious without seeking permission from judges.

An English bishop warned Catholics to be alert to the possible deliberate killings of seriously ill patients in state-funded hospitals.