SCOTLAND – Eggs and insults hurled at Catholic parishioners As churchgoers were leaving evening Mass at St John and St Columba's Church in Rosyth, 14 miles northwest of Edinburgh, a gang of youths threw raw eggs and hurled “anti-Catholic abuse” at Fr. Kevin Dow and his parishioners. Ten children aged about [...]

GREECE - World’s oldest refugee: Iraqi woman aged 116 escapes from IS An Iraqi grandmother aged 116 years who escaped from IS is the oldest refugee in Greece – and possibly the world!Zafir, born on 1 July 1910, is older than the Iraqi state itself. At that time the Ottoman Empire still [...]

Nepal - Holy Cross Sisters' mission for poor remote villages is thriving It is almost 10 years now since the sisters of the congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Cross first began their apostolate in East Nepal. They are helping to give schooling to children from the poorest families, and at [...]

INDIA - Two priests give an account of religious persecution against Christians Two priests from the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in Orissa spoke about their experiences of religious persecution at a conference on religious persecution organised by Aid to the Church in Need. Fr Mrutyunjaya and Fr Santosh Kumar described the difficult reality [...]