BANGLADESH: Jesuits open their first training centre
The Society of Jesus has set up its first-ever novitiate in Bangladesh, where less than half a…
UNITED KINGDOM: Crosses damaged by jihadists to join exhibition
Three crosses that suffered damage when extremists seized Iraq’s Nineveh Plains are to be added to an…
NIGERIA: Kidnapped priest goes free
Nigerian priest Father Mikah Suleiman was released last night (Sunday, 7th July) after more than two weeks…
PAKISTAN: Desperate plea for Christian man put on death row
The head of the Catholic Church in Pakistan has lambasted a court for passing the death sentence…
UKRAINE: Priests freed from Russian captivity
Two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests have been released 19 months after they were seized by Russian authorities…
MOZAMBIQUE: Church destroyed but Christian community standing strong
Four years after Islamist extremists destroyed their church, Catholics in a north-east Mozambique parish are still gathering…
NEWS BRIEFING: Widow of Pakistan mob attack victim dies
Alla Rakhi, the widow of the Nazir Gill Masih, has died. Their family home in Sargodha was…
NEWS BRIEFING: Yet another Nigerian priest is kidnapped
Father Mikah Suleiman, the parish priest of St Raymond Damba Church in Damba, Gasau, Zamfara State was…
INTERNATIONAL: Charity raises £121 million to help Christians in need
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) completed 5,573 projects in 138 countries last year,…
DRC: Bishop calls on authorities to end killings after latest slaughter
A Congolese bishop has made a fresh plea for the country’s leaders to stop the armed conflict…
LEBANON: Church scrambling to help people living ‘in a state of war’
Renewed prayers for an end to the conflict in the Middle East are urgently needed – according…
NEWS BRIEFING: Gunmen abduct Nigerian priest and parishioner
Unidentified armed men kidnapped a Catholic priest and another individual Sunday (16th June) morning after Mass in…