
ETHIOPIA: Trauma in Tigray
The people of Ethiopia’s Tigray region “experienced hell” during two years of civil war, according to their…

HOLY LAND: ‘When the wounds are still bleeding it is not the time to speak of politics’ – Cardinal
The Cardinal Patriarch of Jerusalem has pleaded for an end to the divisive politics engulfing Gaza and…

PAKISTAN: Church leaders welcome increase in legal marriage age in Pakistan
THE Catholic Church in Pakistan has applauded an amendment to the Christian Marriage Act raising the legal…

NIGERIA: Leaders accused of inaction amid ongoing killings and food crisis
Eight months after hundreds of Christians were massacred on Christmas Eve and three months after another carnage…

EGYPT: Plans to build more churches as religious freedom returns
A decrease in the influence of Islamist extremism in Egypt has made it possible for Christians to…

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…