RUSSIA “Some mothers don’t even know that you have to bathe a baby” The Orthodox Church has set up a crisis centre for women in Nizhny Novgorod with the help of the Catholic Church. In celebration of the “International Day of the Unborn Child” on 25 March, Peter Humeniuk, Russia expert of the pontifical...
NIGERIA 100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram last month are released Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has released 101 of the 110 girls abducted from a boarding school last month. Government sources said that the number “would be updated after the remaining ones have been documented.” The militants drove into Dapchi early in the...
JERUSALEM Reopening of the Holy Sepulchre is “a source of great joy”, says Custos of the Holy Land Leaders of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian clergy reopened the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem last Wednesday after Israel suspended a controversial tax plan and property legislation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The people are well and truly on the Via Dolorosa! Since the mid-1990s, entire areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and particularly the eastern parts of the country, have been caught up in a never-ending nightmare: the people are well and truly on the Via Dolorosa! Just like...
IRAQ Bartella comes back to life as displaced Christians begin to return “This is our city, our life, our history”, they say excitedly. In the villages of the Nineveh Plain, which were occupied and looted between 2014 and 2016 by Islamic State(IS), the smell of fresh paint finally replaces the stench of burning. In...
TOGO More classrooms to cope with huge demand for catechism and literacy Togo is a country in West Africa with an ethnically diverse population of 6.3 million. The diocese of Dapaong lies in the far north of the country, in a region bordering on the Sahel zone. The desert is encroaching ever further into this...
Pope Paul VI and Oscar Romero to be canonised At a meeting with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, Pope Francis signed decrees for the causes of 13 men and women — among them Pope Paul V! and Archbishop Romero of San Salvador, The Vatican announced that Pope Francis has...
IRAQ Fear persists in Mosul where ISIS “robbed and demolished every church” A Christian woman has spoken of her heartbreak seeing Mosul’s desecrated churches – and remains fearful of Daesh (ISIS) collaborators in the city. Nadia Younis Butti, who returned to Mosul, northern Iraq, for the first time since Daesh seized it in summer 2014,...
