Fr Jaar wishes to thank the people of Malta and Gozo, and in particular parishioners of the churches he visited, for their warm welcome, hospitality and generosity.He fell in love with the Maltese Islands and the local people, who took him to their hearts. He was full of praise for [...]
Two churches in Aceh province of Indonesia were deliberately burnt down by a mob of hundreds of Islamist radicals. Husein Hamidi, Aceh’s chief of police said “After burning the church, the crowd—made up mostly of members of the Muslim Youth Forum—tried to attack another but ran into opposition from Christians”. A [...]
"If we believe in the fundamental rights and truth of democracy, we cannot ignore the abuses suffered by many religious minorities around the world," said Javier Menendez Ros, director of the Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies. He also [...]
Egypt 14Oct. 2015“We no longer want to be second-class citizens” A Coptic Catholic bishop is full of hope close to the parliamentary elections in EgyptShortly before the parliamentary elections begin in Egypt on Sunday, the Coptic Catholic bishop of Assiut has expressed his optimism. In an interview [...]
Success Story: dedication of the new church in BerhimundaIt was a time of great celebration when the newly built church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola was first consecrated in Berhimunda, in eastern India. The bishop himself was present at the ceremony and was welcomed with traditional dances by the people [...]
A car for pastoral work in the new diocese of Bahir Dar–DessiMany foreign tourists fly to Bahir Dar in Western Ethiopia. The third largest city in the country, it is a place where you can not only holiday beneath blossoming tropical trees on the shores of Lake Tana, or take [...]
Success Story: how you helped 76 young people from the Amazon region to take part in the National Youth Day in Manta A letter of thanks has reached us from the heart of the Amazon rainforest, from the apostolic vicariate of Napo in Ecuador. Our benefactors had helped with 9,000 [...]
20,000 Catechisms for children and young people El Salvador has still not fully recovered from the consequences of its brutal civil war from 1981 to 1991. Unemployment is high, the gulf between rich and poor is enormous and numerous organised criminal gangs continue to make the country unsafe to this [...]
Syrian priest Father Jacques Mourad, the prior of the Mar Elian Monastery,who was abducted by IS last May has recently been released after five months. He is currently staying in the village of Zaydal about three miles from the city of Homs. Fr Mourad celebrated his release by conducting Mass [...]
Melkite archbishop of Aleppo, Syria, Jean-Clément Jeanbart,described Pope Francis' speech to over 150 world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly as magnificent and worthy of in-depth analysis. In his speech Pope Francis boldly spoke out in defence of justice, the right of every person to a decent living, respect for human life and [...]