11+ hour, 38+ min ago  (242+ words) Germany’s Catholic telephone counseling ministry offers hope through human connection ucanews.com Germany’s Catholic telephone counseling ministry offers hope through human connection The service helps people navigate loneliness, emotional distress, and other personal challenges while viewing AI not as a…...

11+ hour, 38+ min ago  (110+ words) Psychologist and theologian Dr. Maria Bebber currently serves as the director of the Catholic Telephone Counseling Service under the Archdiocese of Cologne in Germany. She says artificial intelligence has become a new phenomenon in pastoral counseling. Read the full article…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (647+ words) Gina Christian, OSV News Much has been done to mitigate rates of HIV and AIDS, but more work remains as children are still vulnerable to the virus and the disease it causes, said the Holy See's diplomatic representative to the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (519+ words) Buddhists, Christians, and people from other religions joined a community cleanup program during an annual Buddhist religious festival, as part of an ongoing drive against the Dengue outbreak in the island nation. Christians and others collected discarded plastic bottles, food…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1278+ words) On a hot summer afternoon, 32-year-old Bawm Khaw pauses between > As a counselor at the Rebirth Rehabilitation Center, he helps young men and women recover from drug addiction — just as he did a decade ago. He recalls his youth in…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (123+ words) ucanews.com Millions in Southeast Asia face a hidden health crisis. Illegal rare earth mining in Myanmar is flooding the Mekong River with dangerous levels of arsenic. India's ancient Aravallis are being swallowed by illegal mining Deadly train bombing devastates…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (221+ words) ucanews.com What is ailing the aged care system in Australia? After being announced as a ‘once in a generation reform,’ the government’s much-vaunted Support at Home (SAH) program went live on 1 November 2025. It aimed to replace the Home Care…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (769+ words) Kate Scanlon, OSV News As international health officials warn that the Ebola outbreak in central Africa had a big head start, Catholic Relief Services, the overseas relief and development arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., is among the groups…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (476+ words) Churches across denominations, along with civil society groups in Christian-majority Mizoram, have decided to step up joint efforts to tackle the growing menace of drug abuse and trafficking, which is increasingly affecting the northeast Indian state’s youth and families. The…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (868+ words) Catholic bishops in Uganda have urged the people to remain calm after the government postponed the annual Martyrs Day celebrations, following an Ebola outbreak in the East African region. The epidemic caused by the Bundibugyo virus -- one of the several…...