Widespread abuse of Christian refugees largely ignored by German authorities Christians refugees have been afraid to seek shelter in official refugee camps in the Middle East because they were attacked and even killed by Muslims while camp authorities did nothing to help them. Now they are also being psychologically abused, physically mistreated and denied...
IRAQ ACN delegation takes gift from Pope to Christians in Erbil From 1st to 4 April this year a delegation from ACN Italy will visit the city of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Pope Francis wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to entrust some sacred vestments, together with a personal financial donation, to...
BANGLADESH – Islamic State kills Christian convert as a ‘lesson to others’ Hussein Ali , who converted to Christianity from Islam in 1999, was stabbed to death in Bangladesh by suspected Islamic militants. While 68-year-old Hussein was taking his regular morning walk in the town of Kurigram, three attackers approached him on a motorbike and stabbed...
Pope Francis, who has made migration a defining issue of his papacy, is due to visit the Greek island of Lesbos on 16 April. Lesbos has become a centre for migrants seeking a better life in the EU and there are currently 3,560 migrants on the island. Director of the Holy See Press office, Fr. Federico Lombardi,...
Archibishop Shaw brings Pope’s message to bombing victims in hospital Victims of the Easter Sunday Pakistan bomb blast recovering in hospital have received a personal message of sympathy from the Pope. Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore described how he was going from bed to bed visiting the wounded when he received a call on his...
Pope Francis’ new Instagram account has proved to be an astonishing success, acquiring more than ten thousand followers within 30 minutes of going live and over a million followers within hours. The account launch comes a few weeks after Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom met the Pope at the Vatican. The Instagram account was intentionally established...
It had been rumored for months that Mother Teresa’s canonization would take place in September. Now the Vatican made the date official and announced that she will be canonised on 4 September 2106, particularly fitting as this year also marks a special jubilee for workers and volunteers of mercy. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha...
While European countries and the US are increasingly becoming secular societies with no official religion and have abolished laws prohibiting blasphemy against Christianity, no longer “officially atheist “ Russia is moving in the opposite direction. Viktor Krasnov from southern Russia could receive a jail sentence after he was charged with insulting the feelings of religious believers....
Islamic militants forced their way into the Wycliffe Bible translators’ office and brutally murdered four defenseless translators. Two of them were shot and killed immediately. In a heroic effort to save the lead Bible translator, the other two lay on top of him and died while deflecting bludgeoning blows from the militants’ spent weapons, but...
After their seminary in Qaraqosh was closed down and they were forced to flee following a brutal ISIS attack in 2014, four Iraqi seminarians were determined not to give up, but to continue their path to the priesthood. The four seminarians went to the Al-Sharfa Seminary in Harissa, Lebanon to finish their studies Now, a year and...
