BHASKAR SUNAMAJHI (43) is one of seven Christians falsely accused and convicted of the August 2008 murder of a Hindu leader in the Kandhamal district of India’s Odisha State. The killing triggered the worst eruption of Christian persecution in modern Indian history. Almost 100 Christians were killed, while 300 churches [...]
Over 60 Bishops from around the Mediterranean region including Maltese Bishop George Bugeja of Libya, Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea Curmi of Malta, Mgr Denys Antoine Chahda, Archbishop of Aleppo Syria and Cardinal Sako Louis Raphaël of Iraq gathered in Bari Italy from the 19th to 23rd [...]
Homily at the Funeral Mass of Seminarian Michael Nnadi (Sokoto Diocese), on 11th February 2020 at Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto Diocese We have gathered around the remains of Michael in supplication but also as solemn witnesses to the penetrating darkness that hovers over our [...]
Batnaya is a town in the north of Iraq, some 24 km from Mosul. Before ISIS arrived there were 950 families living here, all of them Chaldean Catholics. It was used by the terrorist group as its frontline while it shelled Kurdish troops. So without doubt it was one of [...]
An interview with Sister Annie Demerjian of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary The city of Aleppo, long known as the industrial capital of Syria, with thousands of factories and workshops, was reduced to demolished buildings and rubble-strewn streets during a bloody siege from 2012 to 2016. Hundreds [...]
A 14-year-old Christian girl, who had been kidnapped, gang-raped and forcibly converted to Islam on paper and married off to a Muslim man, was rescued and brought back to her home in the city of Lahore in Pakistan. The Christian girl, Sneha, who lives in the Bahar area of Lahore [...]
At least 24 people were killed and 18 wounded on Sunday during an armed attack on a Protestant church in Pansy, a town in the province of Yagha in northeastern Burkina Faso. The attack took place on Sunday morning when the service was taking place. There are reports that at least [...]
Around the world today, many Priests and religious are braving the odds and risking their lives to take the gospel to far-flung and unreached communities. Fr. Samuel Tswam, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Jalingo in Taraba State, Nigeria is one of such Priests. He takes care of the [...]
The shrine to the 21 Christian men beheaded by ISIS on a Libyan beach in February 2015, will hold an exhibition on Feb. 15, honoring the men and marking the fifth anniversary of their death. Twenty of the men were Coptic Orthodox Christians from Egypt. The 21st victim was a [...]
After fleeing ISIS, a young Syriac Orthodox man talks to Aid to the Church in Need. Wissam Ablahad (26) is a Syriac Orthodox young man who lives with his parents and two siblings in the township of Ba’ashiqah, on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. Wissam and his family, like [...]
