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Pakistan: Imam’s fatwa gives parents of kidnapped Catholic girl hope
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“In terms of how the marriage is viewed within the Muslim community, the Grand Mufti’s intervention is significant.”
Christianity Today: ACNUSA director of outreach eyes US Catholics’ perception of Christian persecution
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“There’s a great darkness over parts of the world where people of faith are persecuted or denied the right to worship.”
Mozambique: in wake of attack, Carmelite sister testifies to ‘barbarism’ of jihadists
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They are sowing terror among the population, burning towns and villages and attacking civilians on the roads or those travelling by public transport.
Nigerian bishop: Government idle in face of ‘overwhelming’ death
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"I am convinced that what we are dealing with here is a weak and corrupt structure. It is about the incapacity of the state to ...
Pakistan: in prison on blasphemy charges, Christian man sees appeal hearing postponed nearly 70 times
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"In our country, what so often happens is that they first arrest the accused and only later do they check the evidence.”
Iran: ‘A Church without martyrs would be like a tree without fruit’
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"Currently we are going through a new period of crisis, which began with the revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. All the Catholic schools and ...
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Catholic wounds need healing as radical Islam is on the rise
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The group that arguably suffered the most in the Bosnian war, and that continues to suffer, is the minority Croat Catholic community. Still today many ...
Episcopal letter from Aleppo, Syria—’I am happy this Pentecost’
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"Yet, despite everything, despite all successive, multiple sufferings and innumerable setbacks, coming home today I am aware of deep inside me being truly happy and ...
Pakistan: family of abducted Catholic girl, 14, takes case to High Court
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Nakash, the kidnapper, argues that, contrary to Pakistani law, which forbids marriage to minors, marrying Maira is sanctioned by Islamic custom which, he claims, says ...
For Christians in Pakistan, pandemic lockdown spells hunger, hardship
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The emergency program will provide food parcels to more than 5000 of the poorest families, families that were already living below the poverty threshold before ...
