“I’ll be there”. Despite the ongoing civil war the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, Bishop George Bugeja, will be in Bari. Religious leaders from countries overlooking the great sea will be participating in the “Mediterranean: frontier of peace”, a meeting being promoted by the CEI to be held in Puglia from [...]
A potentially historic development may be about to happen in the case of Huma Younus, and by implication, of all Christian girls abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan. As reported to ACN last week (on 16 January) by Tabassum Yousaf, the lawyer representing this 14 year-old Catholic girl, [...]
One of the four seminarians kidnapped after an armed group attack on the Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna on the night of 8 January, has been released last weekend by the kidnappers because he was quite ill. The other three seminarians remain in captivity. The freed seminarian, who has not [...]
Religious Sisters in Burkina Faso have told how they are risking their lives to provide food and sanctuary to hundreds of people – women, the elderly and children – fleeing the violence engulfing the country. Sister Pauline and Sister Marie Bernadette, current and former General Superior of the Sisters of [...]
The Republic of South Sudan and the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA) have signed a peace declaration in Rome that takes effect from today January 15. In peace talks in Rome facilitated by the Catholic community of Sant’Egidio, opposition groups and the South Sudanese government recommitted to cease hostilities, [...]
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila led thousands of devotees in prayers for peace as tensions mount between the United States and Iran following the assassination of a top Iranian general. A few days after Iran warned of retaliation for the January 3 US airstrike that killed General Qassem Soleimani, [...]
An Assyrian priest and two other Assyrian Christians were arrested Friday in Turkey and slapped with terror charges for allegedly offering bread and water to Kurdish militants who visited his monastery, according to reports. Priest Sefer Bileçen of the Mor Yakup Monastery in southeast Turkey was detained last Thursday, according [...]
On 10th February many Christians in Malta celebrate the Feast of the Shipwreck of St Paul, marking and giving thanks for the arrival of Christian faith on these islands. The reading from the Acts of the Apostles used for the feast is the text chosen for this year’s Week of [...]
Plans to build India’s largest statue of Jesus in the southern state of Karnataka have encountered heavy opposition from local Hindu nationalists. The state-level government, controlled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asked for the suspension of construction until the ownership of the construction plot has been [...]
The Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation ACN International has learned with dismay of the abduction of four young seminarians in Kaduna, Nigeria. According to local sources, the incident occurred on 8 January 2020 at the Good Shepherd seminary in the city of Kaduna in northern Nigeria. Shortly after 10.30 [...]
