SYRIA: Fresh conflict threatens new exodus of Christians
Warnings that the fresh violence in north-east Syria could unleash a renewed – and potentially fatal –…
PAKISTAN: Christians give their children Islamic names to avoid ‘abuse’ in school
Religious bigotry in Pakistan schools is forcing Christian parents to give their children Islamic names – according…
PAKISTAN: Archbishop raises alarm of kidnapping and forced conversions of under-age Christian girls
A surge in under-age Christian and Hindu girls in Pakistan being kidnapped, raped and forced to marry…
NIGER: The brother of a priest abducted a year ago still hopes for his return
ONE year after the abduction of Italian priest Father Pierluigi Macalli in Niger, his brother Father Walter…
BURKINA FASO: Christian villagers systematically attacked, expelled and exterminated
Christians in northern Burkina Faso have been given violent ultimatums by Islamist extremists to flee their villages…
MADAGASCAR: Island Bishop warns of encroaching Islamism
Islamic missionaries in Madagascar are exploiting the people’s crippling poverty to make converts, a local bishop has…
IRAQ: Christians ‘close to extinction’
Christianity in Iraq could now be on the brink of completely disappearing – according to one of…
CAMEROON: Women maimed as Boko Haram strikes terror
Islamist extremists have cut off the ears of women seized during a night-time raid on a rural…
PHILIPPINES: Courage and faith celebrated as cathedral reopens
The reopening of a bomb-blasted cathedral in the Philippines, six months on from terror attacks which killed…
BURKINA FASO: Stop support for jihadists – says bishop
A bishop in Burkina Faso has called on the international community to stop the flow of weapons…
IRAQ: New archbishop offers new hope
A Catholic priest formerly in London has returned to Iraq to become a bishop ministering to a…