Christian churches flourish despite the threat of Christianity being eradicated in the Middle East Although Aid to the Church in Need says , barring significant intervention on the part of world powers to end the current persecution, Christians could be wiped out from the Middle East in ten years, the situation [...]
Iraqi Christians have now lost all hope of returning to their homes " Christians have now lost any hope of returning soon to their homes." So the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda, described the mood of his faithful during a visit to the headquarters of Aid to the [...]
Pope Francis inaugurates special Year of Mercy on 8 Dec Pope Francis inaugurated a special Year of Mercy at the Vatican on Tuesday by pushing open the huge bronze “Holy Door” that leads into St Peter's Basilica, to the right of the main entrance. The Door has not been opened since [...]
Sharp drop in attendance at Year of Mercy inauguration despite massive security measures The opening of the Year of Mercy took place amid unprecedented security with 5,000 soldiers and police deployed around the city and special police units patrolling the River Tiber on jet skis and speed boats. The authorities even [...]
Syria 26.10.2015Aleppo, Syria, the Church is rebuilding lives—quite literally Abboud Banna is one of Aleppo’s unlucky ones. The home of this 74-year-old Melkite Catholic was severely damaged in a recent bombing attack on the Christian quarter of Syria’s largest city. Along with his wife Zakieh-Asmar (75)—who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease—and [...]
Only the poorest Christians remain in Syria "Christian families that have remained are the poorest “ stated Mgr Denys Antoine Chahda, Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo ,because those who had the opportunity left the country . "Before the war my diocese had 1,500 households, now only 800 are left." Many Syrian [...]
Bangladesh 27.11.2015Missionary attacked on 18 November in Suihari (Bangladesh) is out of danger but remains in hospital Father Piero Parolari, a medical doctor and missionary with the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), was attacked by three men while he was riding his bicycle to his work at St [...]
HIGHLIGHTS of Pope’s visit to Kenya Kenya was the first stop on Pope Francis' first visit to Africa. On arriving he met with ecumenical and religious leaders and told them that interfaith dialogue was not optional but “essential, something which our world, wounded by conflict and division, increasingly needs.”Musonde Kivuva, archbishop [...]
Mgr Paolo Bizzetti inaugurated as new bishop of Anatolia after five years On Sunday, 29th November, The Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia, Turkey, welcomed its new bishop - H.E.Mgr.Paolo Bizzeti. The community of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia has been without a bishop for five years following the murder of Bishop Luigi [...]
Shameful silence –as everyone rushes to the aid of refugees flooding Europe, Christians have been abandoned As European and American leaders welcome with open arms the hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees flooding into Europe, the desperate cries of persecuted Christians in Syria and Iraq are increasingly being ignored. When it [...]