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In Burkina Faso, Islamists are ‘sowing terror,’ brutally targeting Christians
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"Many of the residents fled, while those who remained had to witness the terrorists assassinating three people, including a community leader named Jean-Paul who had ...
Pope blesses Marian icon in support of campaign for Christians in Syria
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At Mass and during processions, the faithful’s prayers went out to those who were killed or abducted during the war and to their families. Some ...
ACN supports ‘healing for the wounds of the heart’ for bombing victims in Sri Lanka
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To provide for their needs, the Archdiocese of Colombo has set up a team of 40 certified trauma therapists. They provide psychological care for grieving, ...
In Burkina Faso, bishop calls for support against jihadists
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"When they come to the villages they shoot for hours. Who is supplying them with these resources? If they were not getting this support from ...
Philippines: Hundreds march to express solidarity with bishops charged with sedition
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"Let us stand in solidarity and unity in our prayers. We pray for the safety of the bishops and all those wrongfully charged, that they ...
Iraqi Christians fear appointment of Islamic judges to country’s highest court
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IN A COUNTRY where Christians have been subject to targeted bombings, kidnapping, and discrimination, Church leaders are grappling with a new crisis: an attempt to ...
Sri Lanka bombings hurt people of all faiths
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“THE PEOPLE HERE are good, but the government is bad.” This is the opinion of a Buddhist taxi driver. It’s a view is one widely ...
The future of Christians in Iraq, five years after ISIS invasion
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"We Christians are a people of hope. But facing the end also brings us clarity, and with it the courage to finally speak the truth. ...
On Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, a priest tells his flock to be courageous
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FATHER DURAID Barber is a priest of the Syriac-Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, Kirkuk and Kurdistan. Born and raised in Qaraqosh, a Christian town on the ...
Catholic hospital closures in Eritrea: ‘It is like amputating one of the Church’s arms’
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“THE PURPOSE of the brutal actions of the Eritrean government was to divest the Church of all services in the areas of education and health. ...
