Ukraine 11 March 2015 From reports to the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need Bishop Bronislaw Bernacki is stunned. “No one expected that another war would be carried out on European soil in this day and age,” the Roman Catholic bishop of Odessa-Simferopol said during [...]
04 March 2015 12:19 by Liz Dodd Another four Christian hostages have been freed by Islamic State jihadists in Syria, according to a television channel dedicated to Assyrian news. Assyria TV yesterday spoke to people who met the four former hostages, a married couple and a mother and her 6-year-old daughter. The [...]
Königstein/NEW DELHI (March 9, 2015)— “Three policemen tried to drag me away. But I resisted. Then half a dozen of them lifted me up—with one even choking me by the neck—and put me in the police bus.” His priestly garb gave Father Dennis George little protection, he told international Catholic [...]
"O Father, know that our faith today is much stronger than before." Rome, March 06, Here is the letter to Pope Francis from Iraqi Christians living in Jordan who have escaped violence and persecution from the Islamic State. The letter was given to the Holy Father yesterday by Fr. Rif'at Bader, [...]
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ACN supports the prayer appeal of Patriarch Gregorios III – the charity has given 6.3 million Euros in emergency aid since the war began ACN, Königstein – 5.3.2015. Patriarch Gregorios III. Of Antioch, the head of the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, which is in communion with Rome, has called for a [...]
Baghdad, 1 March 2015 – According to casualty figures released today by UNAMI, a total of 1,103 Iraqis were killed and another 2,280 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence in February*. The number of civilians killed was 611 (Including 30 civilian police), and the number of civilians injured [...]
Interview with Peter Konteh, Executive Director of Caritas Freetown, Sierra Leone In West Africa the Ebola epidemic claimed thousands of victims in 2014. From Guinea it spread to the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia. It mainly affected the capitals and the border regions between the countries. Thanks to [...]
THE extremist group Islamic State has now released some of the Christian hostages it seized in north-east Syria last week. According to London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 19 captives have been released – 18 were from the village of Tel Goran, one of the Assyrian Christian villages in [...]
IF YOU O LORD SHOULD MARK OUR GUILT, LORD, WHO WOULD SURVIVE? (Ps 130:3) 1: The Lord of Mercy In 2008, a woman phoned to complain to me that her youngest daughter had decided, out of the blue, to leave the Pentecostal Church to which they had been affiliated and [...]
