NIGERIA: Bishop seeks release of 75-year-old priest from kidnappers
A bishop has taken personal charge of negotiations to secure the release of a retired parish priest…
DRC: ‘Killed in their hospital beds’
A bishop from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has given a harrowing account of the Islamist…
PAKISTAN: Head imam backs Christian nurses in blasphemy crisis
Muslim leaders in Pakistan sided with Christians accused of blasphemy in a move that has defused a…
MOZAMBIQUE: City gripped by fear of new terror attacks
Panicking people in northern Mozambique are living in constant fear of fresh attacks from extremists – according…
DRC: ‘The government doesn’t care’
The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is guilty of either weakness or complicity, according…
MOZAMBIQUE: ‘Stop the barbarism’
The Catholic bishops of Mozambique have condemned the escalating violence in the Cabo Delgado region in a…
INTERNATIONAL: Weaponisation of technology driving explosion of religious hatred in COVID era, says report
Persecution of faith groups has drastically increased in more than 95 percent of the world’s worst-offending countries…
DRC: Bishops warn of new Islamisation threat
The bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have condemned rebel violence in the east…
IRAQ: 23,000 returned – and counting
Pope Francis’ historic visit to Iraq has given fresh impetus this Easter to a movement of Iraqi…
MOZAMBIQUE: ‘How many more must die before the world acts?’
A priest has expressed fears over the fate of the faithful who fled Palma, in Mozambique’s Cabo…
INDONESIA: Suicide bombers attack cathedral on Palm Sunday
Two suicide bombers attacked the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of Indonesia’s South Sulawesi…
PAKISTAN: Abducted girls – this nightmare must stop
• Kiran Masih, 17, becomes the latest girl forced to convert and marry…