The Voice of the suffering and persecuted​

“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."

"We need to bring good news to the people here during the papal visit; to be able to announce the vision to have 1000 students by 2025."

More than 44 percent of the families who originally lived on the Nineveh Plains and were expelled by Islamist violence have now returned to their towns and villages.

"The Pope knows where he is going. He is deliberately coming to an area marked by war and violence to bring a message of peace.”

"I realized just how much, even in poverty, we can help, we can share."