PAKISTAN: Parishioners gather for Mass outside their torched church
There were tears of sadness and fear in Pakistan yesterday (20th August) as a crowd of 700…
NIGERIA: Killings of Christians ‘going on and on’, with no arrests made
After 21 Christians were killed and more than 10 critically injured by Fulani militants in Nigeria last…
PAKISTAN: 1,000 frightened and homeless Christians forced to sleep rough
Nearly 1,000 panic-stricken Christians in Pakistan spent last night in fields of sugar cane having narrowly escaped…
PAKISTAN: Mass exodus as mobs burn churches and homes
Up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of Christian homes destroyed after extremists went…
GHANA: Sister saving disabled children from being killed
A religious Sister in Ghana has recounted how she has rescued more than 130 children from being…
PAKISTAN: Christian schools promoting religious tolerance
False accusations of blasphemy against Christians and other vulnerable minorities can only be prevented by improving education,…
INDIA: Manipur Archbishop – Pray for an end to the suffering
A Catholic archbishop in north-east India, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave…
HOLY LAND: Boosting pastoral work despite growing anti-Christian discrimination
Religious intolerance in the Holy Land is on the rise and the desecration of churches is becoming…
MOZAMBIQUE: Feeding Mozambique’s hunger for the Word of God
A Catholic charity is providing more than 40,000 Bibles to help the faithful in Mozambique grow in…
IRAQ: Patriarch – President’s decree reversal is a ‘humiliation for the Church’
The leader of Iraq’s largest Christian community has condemned a Presidential order overturning a decree which recognises…
NIGERIA: Bishop rejects anxieties new president will Islamise Nigeria
A leading bishop has dismissed fears being expressed by Nigeria’s Christians that the new government has an…
SYRIA: Archbishops demand West lift sanctions crippling Christian community
Syriac-Catholic leaders told a member of the Italian government that the economic sanctions against Syria are crushing…