Thousands of Filipinos flock to churches to observe Ash Wednesday, with Catholic priests and nuns daubing their foreheads with a cross for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

People gather on O'Connell Street in Dublin to protest against the Russian war in Ukraine. Speech by Father Fergal MacDonagh, the Irish priest who threw paint on the Russian Embassy in Dublin this week.

Roselyne Hamel, the sister of Father Jacques Hamel, the Archbishop of Rouen, Mgr Lebrun, and his lawyer, Catherine Fabre, arrive at the special criminal court in Paris which is due to deliver its verdict against the defendants in the...

A defrocked American priest is jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing children at an East Timor shelter, in a case that caused sharp divisions in the deeply Catholic nation (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

In a church in Caracas, parishioners mourn the death of priest Miguel Vargas, a story that has become all too common in Venezuela (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

An Orthodox priest calling the reception of Pope Francis by the leader of the Greek Church a 'betrayal' is removed by Athens police from the street where he is speaking (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Following the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, priests from the Anglican community, neighbours and Soweto residents gather in front of Desmond Tutu’s house on Vilakazi Street for a ceremony (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The Salvadoran town of El Paisnal prepares for the beatification of Salvadoran priest Rutilio Grande, Italian priest Cosme Spessotto and two laypeople, Manuel Solorzano and Nelson Rotilo (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The Salvadoran Jesuit priest Rutilio Grande and the Italian Franciscan Cosme Spessotto, killed by the military in the lead up to to the Salvadoran civil war (1980-1992), as well as two lay people are officially beatified in El Salvador...

"If I am going to speak about my profession as a writer, as I did today, I am going to open the window that looks towards my country, and I am going to remember what is happening; the political prisoners, the persecuted priests," says...

Since Russia launched its military action on February 24, only a handful of priests from the Russian Orthodox Church led by Moscow Patriarch Kirill -- which counts some 150 million believers across the world -- have spoken out openly...

A suspect in the 2011 Philippines murder of Italian priest Father Fausto Tentorio is taken to prison from a police station in the southern farming town of Arakan (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Como un entierro al revés, el cuerpo del alcalde de Gostomel salió de la tierra rodeado de personas en duelo, entre los consuelos de un sacerdote a su viuda (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

After dawn in a small eastern Indonesia town, non-binary Bissu priests walk barefoot to perform an annual Mappalili ritual (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Under the Instagram handle 'crossfitpriest', Swedish hospital chaplain Oskar Arngarden shares fitness and spiritual guidance with his 30,000 followers, with a view of helping them heal body, mind and soul (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Series of bomb blasts in Northern Ireland.

1. ms cardinal William C
onway
2. various of house
wreckage
3. Cardinal inspecting
the wreckage
4. various of pub in
which bomb exploded
5. various of wr
ecked...

Eng/Nat

A UN-sponsored conference on organised crime opens tomorrow (Monday) in Na
ples.
For decades the Roman Catholic Church in Sicily kept...

HEADLINE: Vatican official left abusive priest in pastor job

CAPTION: The cardinal who oversees priest abuse cases at the Vatican didn't restrict a California priest after learning in 1995 that he had molested a...

1. television clip 'South park'

2. SOT Patrick Scully (Director of Communications, Catholic League): "First of all the Catholic league is not saying that this episode should not air. We are not saying it should be taken...

1. Wide pan of La Valletta grand port

2. Long shot of fort and Maltese
flag
3. Mid shot
of street

4. Flags
5. Photo of Pope Benedict
XVI in shop window
6. Mid of...

HEADLINE: Police: Arrest in 'revenge' beating of priest

CAPTION: A man allegedly molested three decades ago by a Jesuit priest was arrested Friday on charges that he tracked down the retired cleric in his retirement home and...

Thousands of Haitians attended the funeral service held on Friday

(2/9) for Jean-Marie Vincent, the pro-democracy priest wh
o was
killed on Sunday night (28/9). Prominent dignitaries,
such as US
Ambassador...

1. Wide of Belgian Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard arriving for news conference

2. Leonard sitting
down
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard of Mechele
n-Brussels
"Last...

APTN, Venice 3 September 2003

1. Sign for Clooney and Zeta Jones film, with title of Intolerable Cruelty translated in Italian, as 'First I Marry You, Then I Ruin
You.'
2. LS Clooney and Zeta...