
UK: Charity head receives papal honour
The UK head of a leading Catholic charity has been given a papal knighthood in recognition of…

IRAQ: Christian home fire-bombed in Iraq
A bomb attack on the home of a Catholic shopkeeper in southern Iraq has been condemned by…

UK: UN must recognise forced conversions as crimes against women – Nazir-Ali
An urgent appeal to the UN to add forced conversions and forced marriages to the list of…

NEWS BRIEFING: New report shines light on extremist assaults on Christian girls
On Wednesday (24th November) Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be launching a…

UK: Bishop to join second leg of ACN’s Scottish pilgrimage
A bishop will be joining the pilgrimage of a leading Catholic charity that retraces the steps of…

Raped Christian girl, 3, suffering “psychological distress”
A Christian girl in Pakistan who was raped, aged three, by the husband of her school principal,…

UK/INTERNATIONAL: Cross-party parliamentary support for ACN’s petition
The petition of a leading Catholic charity, calling on the UN and UK government to tackle the…

LEBANON: Patriarch – Christians will be extinct if West does nothing
Amid a spiraling economic crisis and an upsurge in violence, a Middle Eastern Patriarch says that if…

NIGERIA: Three seminarians abducted from chapel
Three seminarians from Nigeria’s conflict-stricken Middle Belt were kidnapped from their college chapel last night (Monday) and…

LEBANON AND SYRIA: Children are looking for food in bins
Children in Syria are scavenging for food as the country’s economic crisis spirals out of control –…

SIERRA LEONE: We learnt from Ebola
Sierra Leone’s low number of COVID deaths is the result of lessons the country learnt during the…

IRAQ: Iraq’s extremists emboldened by Taliban takeover
The threat of Daesh (ISIS) and other extremists in Iraq has grown following the Taliban’s return to…