DRC: Trapped between bandits and a volcanic eruption
Tens of thousands of people are risking assaults by armed groups as they evacuate the city of…
HOLY LAND: Pray that peace will hold
The international president of a leading Catholic charity has expressed sorrow at the violence that has killed…
DRC: ‘Killed in their hospital beds’
A bishop from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has given a harrowing account of the Islamist…
BRAZIL: Food aid for poor hit worst by Corona-crisis
A Catholic charity is giving a vital life-line to some of the poorest families in Brazil’s Amazonia…
UK/INTERNATIONAL: ‘Religious freedom is more than being free to worship’
• Webinar next week will address the vital human rights issue of our age…
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…
DRC: ‘The government doesn’t care’
The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is guilty of either weakness or complicity, according…
INDIA: ‘We are paying the price for poor COVID-19 precautions’
A bishop in India has said that failure to put in place proper COVID-19 restrictions caused the…
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…
PRESS NOTICE: New Religious Freedom report
Aid to the Church in Need’s landmark report assessing religious liberty in every country on earth will…
UK/INTERNATIONAL: Report to offer ‘hope’ for world’s persecuted people
A long-awaited landmark report assessing religious freedom in every country on earth is to be launched…