Some 123 million EU citizens – one in every four – are at risk of poverty and social exclusion – an increase of 7 million in the six years up to 2013.
Two projects whose work benefits women and their communities receive ‘Women: Sowers of Development’ prize at Vatican event.
"Irreversibility of this punishment does not allow for eventual corrections in the case of wrongful convictions."
FleshandBlood (FaB) campaign launches in Dublin with the aim of mobilising parishes to become more actively involved in donating blood and organs.
Minister for the Diaspora launches website providing simple but effective advice and tools to help Irish emigrants deal with the challenges of emigration.
Pope Francis encourages healthcare professionals and medical students to specialise in palliative care.
The sacrament of marriage is a sacrament given for the building up of the Church.
President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace pays first visit to Belfast.
Article seems “calculated to try to quash the few dissenting voices” on same sex marriage.
Japan Tobacco International planning to take the Government to court over its attempts to introduce plain tobacco containers.
Massive red ribbon launches FleshandBlood campaign highlighting the thousands of people who benefit from blood donation and the lives transformed by organ donation.
New website will support and promote the activities of the pastoral centre as well as other pastoral initiatives throughout the diocese of Kilmore.
Over 5.2 million adults and children have gone through the safe environment programme in the US - Mgr Steve Rossetti.
Historian uses archives to shed new light on the genocide which saw one and a half million Armenians 'eradicated' by the Ottoman Empire.
Homeless campaigner and former soccer international honoured for "their work in the fields of social justice and sport”.
First national safeguarding conference hosted by the National Board marks a significant milestone on the safeguarding journey: Archbishop Eamon Martin.
Emmanuel and Seinn concerts draw over 3,000 secondary school students together for Church music performances.
“There is no group that is more influential in the process than priests. They are even more influential than bishops."
ISIS has begun killing some of the 150 Christians taken hostage from villages in northeast Syria.
"Amnesty International was once an organisation that you could depend on to defend human rights."
Archbishop of Dublin warns that healthy politics cannot be built on a culture of spin or a policy of just being against something.
There are many examples of renewal in the Church in Ireland today Archbishop of Dublin suggests.
“Our laws as they stand are having an unjust and disproportionate impact on those of religious faith" - Bishop Treanor.
Address by Bishop Kevin Doran on ‘The Synod on the Family and its Implications for our Understanding of Marriage’.
Parishes in Dublin are told that every effort should be made to ensure that their churches are not used for the dissemination of campaign literature from any source.
"A society which loses a sense of God’s mercy slips into a climate of negativity and violence, of harshness and vindictiveness.”
External forms of piety without “a real conversion are not enough to be considered in communion with Christ and his Church”.
Irish Jesuit convert whom Pope Francis declared Venerable last November draws Christian Churches together in remembrance.
"Our freedom is not license but has within it the demands and choice of personal and communal responsibility.”
Overwhelming choice for Irish people when a child is being placed for adoption is for child to be placed with a man and a woman.
