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INTERNATIONAL: Helping the Church tackle the COVID crisis
Projects helping Christians badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic are among the latest round of aid provided…
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UKRAINE & RUSSIA: COVID-19, ecumenism and rehabilitating drug addicts
PPE for 3,478 priests ministering in COVID-hit Ukraine and urgent help for a drug rehab centre in…
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NIGERIA: ‘Christians fear for their lives’
• Priest adds: “It is like we have been left to perish because of our faith.”…
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PAKISTAN: Judges frightened to do justice in blasphemy cases
The threat from extremists means judges in Pakistan are too afraid to acquit Christians falsely accused of…
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PAKISTAN: Asia Bibi – ‘Please help kidnapped girls’
Asia Bibi – the first woman to be sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan – has…
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LEBANON: Beirut, we will not abandon you
A leading Catholic charity is preparing a second wave of help for Beirut amid growing fears that…
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PAKISTAN: Maira receives death threats
A 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan has received death threats from the man she accuses of rape…
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PAKISTAN: ‘Police said, if we didn’t convert to Islam we’d face prison’
A man, who spent nearly five years in prison in Pakistan, has described how police tortured him…
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LEBANON: Order of St Lazarus helps bind up Beirut’s wounds
Members of an ancient Chivalric Order with close ties to the Middle East have raised more than…
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UK: God speaks to His children
A lockdown project, inviting high-profile personalities to record the Bible from start to finish, has reached its…
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LEBANON: ‘The children are suffering from trauma’
The trauma of the recent explosion in Beirut has left many of the city’s children in need…