CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 1,000 Muslims seek refuge in a church from militia waiting to kill them More than 1,000 Muslims have been hiding from a hostile militia inside a Roman Catholic Church at a compound in Bangassou, Central African Republic. While some media reports say the militia is mostly made up [...]
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VATICAN Pope Francis to visit 3 Baltic countries in September The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on 22-25 Sep. The Pope is expected to visit Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania; Riga and Aglona in Latvia, and Tallinn in Estonia. The logo and [...]
EGYPT Cathedral dedicated to beheaded Coptic martyrs is inaugurated Three years after the massacre of the 21 young Copts, a cathedral for the "martyrs of the faith" was completed in recent months. It is located in the small village of Al Ur in the province of Minya, the birthplace of [...]
CHINA Another church damaged despite a historic agreement with the Vatican Just a few weeks after the meeting between the Chinese and Vatican delegations, which reportedly resulted in the drafting of a "historic" agreement on the nominations of bishops in the Chinese Catholic Church, reports are emerging of attacks on [...]
The CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC "We were obliged to bury many people" The present situation in the Central African Republic, following five years of war and violence, is a profoundly distressing one. Speaking to the 37th Ordinary Session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Bishop Juan José Aguirre-Muñoz of [...]
DAMASCUS “The Christians are scared to death and fear for their lives” The current military offensive in Syria not only affects the inhabitants of the Eastern Ghouta region but also those of neighbouring Damascus. The shelling of the capital city continues. The Christian district at the eastern edge of [...]
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SYRIA New soles for Syrian souls More than 450 of the poorest elderly people in Syria have received new shoes – thanks to a leading Catholic charity. The grant, made by the UK office of Aid to the Church in Need, provides for people in Aleppo in their 60s and [...]
JERUSALEM Why church authorities closed the Holy Sepulchre church in protest Last Wednesday the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem reopened its doors. Last Sunday the Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Church representatives had jointly decided to close this sacred building indefinitely, in protest against two controversial Israeli actions. [...]
