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Iraq  06.08.2015- 120,000 baptized are still living as refugees after a year of the invasion of their peoples Daesh (Islamic State) Behnam Benoka is a young Syrian Catholic priest of Ankawa, the Christian Quarter of Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. On the night of 6 to 7 August last year [...]

Ukraine 13.08.2015When the massive statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was to be demolished, it was feared that it would topple over and its weight would break through the ground, beneath which ran the underground railway. But when the statue was broken up into many pieces, the truth was revealed: it [...]

Al Qaryatqyn, Syria 10.08.2015There is great concern in Syria following the kidnapping of dozens of Christians by the terror group “Islamic State”Homs/Königstein,  10.08.2015. “We do not know what ‘Islamic State’ intends to do with the hostages,” Father Jihad Youssef, a member of a Syrian-Catholic religious order, told the Catholic pastoral [...]

August 13, 2015Cardinal John Tong Hon brands removal campaign in Zhejiang 'illegal'Cardinal John Tong Hon of Hong Kong has issued an “urgent appeal” to Communist Party chiefs in Beijing, calling on them to order a halt to an ongoing cross-removal campaign in Zhejiang province.“I sincerely and urgently appealed to the [...]

https://acnmalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ACN-_Malta_-L-ACN-thabbar-ghajnuna-vitali-ghar-refugjati-Iraqqini-–-sena-wara-li-harbu.pdf Il-Patrijarka tal-Kaldej jimmarka l-anniversarju tat-traġedja ta’ Mosul u l-Wied ta’ Nineveh. BAGHDAD – Fi stqarrija indirizzata lejn il-Gvern u l-Parlament tal-Iraq, il-mexxej tal-Knisja Kaldeja, il-Patrijarka Louis Sako I jikteb bħala l-President tal-Assemblea tal-Isqfijiet Kattoliċi fl-Iraq. Hu appella għall-mexxeja ta’ pajjiżu biex jagħmlu l-aħjar li jistgħu sabiex jegħlbu lill-“gruppi estremisti li [...]

China July 31, 2015Ceremony seen as possible benchmark for state of Vatican-China relationsWhen Father Joseph Zhang Yinlin is ordained bishop of Anyang in Henan province on August 4, he will become the first publicly ordained Chinese bishop in three years and the first since the Vatican and China restarted its dialogue [...]

 Central African Republic Help to print two catechetical books The Central African Republic is a country that many people barely even know exists. And yet this landlocked country in the heart of Africa, with an area of around 240,000 square miles (622,984 km²), is roughly the size of Germany, Austria, [...]

Erbil,Iraq    05.08.2015Just before the anniversary of the flight of tens of thousands of Christians Iraqi bishops thank Aid to the Church in Need for building schools Erbil/Königstein – 5 August 2015. Iraqi bishops have thanked the Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need for setting up schools [...]