Pope Francis has said that Asia would be a priority in his pontificate, and he will be visiting the region again next month, when he visits Japan and Thailand in November. The pontiff has spoken about a desire in his youth to serve as a missionary in Asia, but he never got the opportunity with...
Fr. Jude Raj Fernando, the rector of St. Anthony’s shrine in Colombo, Sri Lanka – one of the churches bombed during on Easter Sunday by a group affiliated with Islamic State, has described his pastoral work with victims of the attack as a long journey of faith. Speaking recently of his painful pastoral experience at...
“At least 300 Christians have been forced to leave the towns of Ras al-Ain, Derbasiyah, Tall Tamr and one area of al-Malikiyah, and we are afraid that if the fighting continues, there could be a still greater exodus which might even include the town of Qamishli, where there are 2,300 Christian families living at present.”...
Pope Francis has sent a message of encouragement to hundreds of Scottish school pupils who gathered in Motherwell, Scotland on Monday to highlight Christian persecution around the world. 500 young people from Scotland’s Catholic schools joined the ‘stand up for faith and freedom’ annual youth rally organised by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)....
As a young priest, Father Boniface first lived in neighbouring Ethiopia for eight years before he decided to go to South Sudan in 2013. During a recent visit to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Headquarters, he shares about his mission to the African Country and his experiences throughout these years of war. “After...
Hussein Mohammed was the name he was given at birth. But when the Muslim-born Mohammed came to faith in Jesus Christ, he preferred to be called by his baptismal name of George. George was killed on October 6 in a family honour killing after the Egyptian Christian posted pictures on Facebook acknowledging his conversion from...
Christians in Pakistan continue to suffer mistreatment and violence with the authorities doing apparently nothing about it. The perpetrators are often left to go unpunished and so, a consistent pattern of discrimination and persecution against Christians is now the order of the day in the Asian Country. Naseem Nawab, a Pakistani Catholic nurse who has...
The Filipino bishops have welcomed the government’s move to introduce the study of the Catholic faith and the reading of the Bible in public, primary and secondary schools. “It is a good proposal. We hope it will be approved”, said Archbishop Arturo Bastes, Bishop of Sorsogon, former president of the Bishops’ Commission for the Biblical...
