The Voice of the suffering and persecuted​

"It proves the severe persecution suffered by Christians in Iraq during the years of terror by the ISIS."

"But what can the people do against tanks? And tanks are now being deployed everywhere."

"I was left wondering why they had to do this because burning a church is same as invoking God’s wrath."

“The Holy Father’s trip to Iraq is such a sign of encouragement, a message of hope to the Iraqi Christians who have been tested in their faith all down the centuries."

“On one side of the stole is the Lord’s prayer in our language, Syriac, which comes from Aramaic, the original language of Jesus. On the other side is the Hail Mary."

“The situation of minorities in Pakistan is still not improving despite all the efforts.”

“The law ... has given the right-wing zealots the chance to crack their whip at any time against the vulnerable minority community members,”

DAVID PAMTHET, 17, AN ETHNIC KHASI PRESBYTERIAN, lives with his mother Welentina Pamthet, 42 and two sisters in Ichhachhara Khasi in northeastern Bangladesh. There are about 300 people from 50 Christian families in the village. Khasi, a mongoloid group, mostly rely on betel leaf farming for survival. There are about 40,000 mostly Christian Khasi people in some 94 villages in northeastern Bangladesh. Since 2020, David’s family has been in a dispute with a Muslim man over a five-acre betel leaf plantation, the only source of income of the family. David’s father, Jasper Amlorong, 52, inherited the family property, but ...

“Unexpectedly, there was a strong rejection from a certain intolerant Muslim group. They protested against the Easter celebrations held on the parish’s land. I was shocked as I did not expect such thing to happen. "

"Now she is afraid of me. She firmly believes that her family will kill her in the name of honor. I only met her twice at the shelter house."