The Voice of the suffering and persecuted​

“I am completely traumatized by what happened that night. I told doctors that I could not think of anything. Just a blank mind."

“The Church in Haiti has a prophetic mission. She must denounce the terrible conditions. So it is quite possible that she is a thorn in the side of some of these politicians."

Prisoners who escaped the Islamist militia also confirmed to the bishops “that they had been compelled to convert to Islam.”

“Sadly, human life is hemorrhaging so badly in Nigeria, but the greatest tragedy is the death of empathy from those in power."

"We are being made homeless. Our law suppresses the weak in service of the powerful. Our dreams have been broken.”

“Thus begins the process of implanting the order of the Discalced Carmelites deep into Zambian soil."

“This was the first time in my close to two decades of teaching that I faced a situation where I could be arrested for a crime that I never even thought of.”

"Ideally, laws based on Islamic teachings should only apply to Muslims. In practice, however, such laws are applied to all with no exceptions."

"We have witnessed violations of religious freedom of genocidal dimensions."

In Indonesia, conservative and sometimes violent Islamist tendencies have been on the rise in recent years.