The Vatican has opened debate on allowing married men to become priests in the Amazon, an unprecedented move that has triggered speculation it could pave the way for similar reforms in other parts of the world.
Pope Francis has appealed for the care of migrants in Bulgaria which has not recently been welcoming of them, but his words during a trip seeking church unity riled a senior cleric in the dominant Orthodox Church in the eastern European nation.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated at UN Headquarters in New York, honoring the memory of some six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust during World War Two.
When church bells tolled at the 11th hour on June 14, they were signaling solidarity with a national "strike" for women's equality held throughout Switzerland with full backing from the ecumenical community, including the World Council of Churches.
