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For Syria’s youth, education holds key to a brighter future
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"During the war, we lived in difficult circumstances, especially as students. We studied by candlelight sometimes, not to mention the sounds of the explosions that ...
Prelate calls for international peace-keeping force on Nineveh Plains
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"The whole of the Middle East is being convulsed by violence, corruption and political upheaval. It is blighted by sin. It is Jesus who forgives ...
Poll measures US Catholic perception of global Christian persecution
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FORTY PERCENT of US Catholics believe that Christian persecution around the world is “severe.” Four-in-ten Catholics say that half or more of religiously-based attacks around ...
Iraqi Christians continue to confront uncertain future
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"I am afraid that the same thing will happen to us again—that ISIS will return.”
Cardinal reports on crisis in Nicaragua, regime use of deadly force
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“Hearing the appeal by Pope Francis to be [for the churches to become] ‘field hospitals,’ many of our parishes have given shelter to those seeking ...
In North Korea, despite hostile regime, the faith clings to life
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"The truth is that there are some genuine faithful among those North Koreans who come to Mass in Changchung Cathedral. Though attendees are mobilized by ...
‘It is not possible to imagine a Middle East without Christians’
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"To hear these Christians forgiving and praying for those who persecuted them is a testimony to the action of the Lord. Humanly speaking, it is ...
Nigerian prelate pleads for dialogue in wake of wave of killings
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"But even in the midst of violence caused either by Boko Haram, militant herdsmen or yet to be identified “foreign invaders,” I believe peace is ...
Nigerian bishop fears for the worst from attacks by Fulani herdsmen
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"Don’t do as you did in Rwanda; don’t wait for the genocide to happen before intervening!”
Mozambique bishop calls for calm after burst of jihadist terror
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"So far nobody can confirm with any certainty whom we are dealing with. There were no common factors among the victims of the attacks, who ...