AC Wimmer

AC Wimmer is the News Editor for Europe and Asia at EWTN News. The multilingual Australian, raised in Bavaria and South Africa, served as editor-in-chief of several news media outlets. A graduate in Philosophy and Chinese Studies from the University of Melbourne, the veteran journalist is a former Honorary Research Fellow in Communications at his alma mater and served on the Board of Caritas in Munich.

A fire broke out in the Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt on Sunday, Aug. 14 2022. ACI MENA

Reports of at Least 40 People Killed in Coptic Church Fire in Cairo, Egypt

At least 40 people have died in a Coptic church fire in Egypt — most of them were children under...

Pope Francis speaking to participants of an Italian youth camp on August 5, 2022 | Vatican media

Pope Francis Calls on Young People to Turn to Jesus Like Blessed Carlo Acutis

Pope Francis told young Catholics on Friday that Jesus is not just a moral precept but a person and a...

Pope Francis prays with journalists on a papal flight August 14, 2014. Alan Holdren/CNA

Canada's Residential Schools System was "cultural genocide": Pope Francis

Pope Francis has agreed with the view that the forced removal of Indigenous children and their treatment in Canada’s residential...

Vatican Warning: Germany's "Synodal Way" Poses "threat to the unity of the Church"

The Vatican has issued another warning of a new schism from Germany coming out of the “Synodal Way”.

Pope Francis celebrated Mass for Rome’s Congolese community in St. Peter's Basilica on July 3, 2022. Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis Warns of Toxicity in Social Media, Calls for Inclusion in Digital Space

Pope Francis has called on Catholics to counter toxicity in social media, and to engage in dialogue and education to...