PAKISTAN - All Christian TV networks closed down for lack of permits 11 Christian television channels in Pakistan broadcasting in Urdu were ordered to stop transmitting, leaving the country's 2.8 million Christians with no public media presence for the first time in nearly two decades. The Pakistani Media Regulatory Authority said they [...]
ACN Malta thanks children who took part in Rosary for Peace on 18 Oct ACN Malta would like to thank all the children, schools and organisations who joined in the Prayer for Peace event by reciting the Rosary on 18 October. Special thanks goes to the school heads and teachers for [...]
Will Pope’s visit to Georgia bring closer relations between Catholics and Orthodox? It is widely thought that the success of the recent Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church was strongly influenced by Pope Francis’ meeting with the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow, Kirill, in [...]
'Without education Syrian children will be the next generation of IS' Bearing samples of drawing and messages gathered from 1.2 million Muslim and Christian children from schools in Homs, Aleppo and Damascus, Syria, an appeal for peace was brought by representatives of the three main churches in Syria to policymakers at [...]
CUBA - “We have neither gold nor silver, but what we have, we give” Hurricane Matthew leaves a trail of destruction and tears in eastern Cuba “Really, I don’t know how to begin to describe what we’ve been through in the last few days”, writes Bishop Wilfredo Pino Estévez of the diocese [...]
NIGERIA - Boko Haram free 21 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls Boko Haram militants have released 21 of the 270 girls abducted two years ago from a school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria. The abduction was part of Boko Haram’s fight to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the region, drawing global attention to the jihadist [...]
PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi's final appeal adjourned The most notorious case involving Pakistan’s blasphemy laws has been adjourned. One of the three-judge bench, Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman, told the court he had to excuse himself from the Asia Bibi appeal because of a conflict of interest."I was a part of the bench that [...]
SYRIA -"The country is destroyed" – interview with Fr Halemba Father Andrzej Halemba, the Director of Projects in the Middle East International for Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), recently returned from a trip to Syria. In an interview with ACN he talks about the current situation in [...]
COLOMBIA - Cúcuta diocese seminary celebrates its 30th anniversary The diocese of Cúcuta lies in the far north-east of Colombia, on the frontier with Venezuela. This year there has been a special reason for celebration, since the local diocesan seminary is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its founding. The rector of the seminary, [...]
IRAQ - Displaced Christians rejoice as Qaraqosh is liberated after 2 years Qaraqosh: 2 years, 207 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes and 13 seconds… “We are so happy, and we are praying to be able to return to our homes one day”.On 6 August 2014 the plain of Niniveh was [...]