NIGERIA – Attacks by Fulani tribesman are a forgotten and overlooked tragedy Christians in northern Nigeria, in addition to suffering attacks by the terrorist Boko Haram group, are also facing a terrible situation as a result of the bloody attacks by Fulani herders against Christian villages in Nigeria’s so-called Middle Belt. “This is a time...
AFTER 11 YEARS OF EFFORT: new local priest ordained in the Solomon Islands On Dec. 8, 2018, the Diocese of Gizo—located at the furthest corner of the world in the center of the South Pacific—celebrated with great joy the ordination of Deacon Thomas Patavolomo in his home community of Voru Voru, located on the northern...
Iraq: Christian leaders call for more support for the Christians of Nineveh “Please do not be a silent bystander to our drama. We call on you to support the Christians of Iraq… while there is still time.” This was the urgent appeal underlying the joint Call for Action signed by the leaders of the three...
PEACE IS ON EVERYONE’S WISH LIST How Christians in need celebrate Christmas “Christmas is the celebration of the longing for our better self, for the heaven we search for in vain here on Earth, and for the carefree life that exists only in heaven,” Father Werenfried van Straaten (1913-2003), the founder of the...
Holy Mass for Monday of the Second Week of Advent (Is 35:1-10; Ps 84; Lk 5:17-26) Königstein, 10.12.2018 Homily by Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, President Today’s readings present salvation to us as a meeting: “Look, your God is coming,… he is coming to save you”, says Isaiah, and so we too must go out to meet...
ASIA BIBI: DAUGHTERS’ SAFETY AT STAKE “We are afraid. In the last few days they have shot at the gate outside the house where we were living. We face constant threats, and more than once I have been followed.” Such is the frightening situation being endured by the daughters of Asia Bibi, as reported to...
An interview with Bishop Raphaël Dabiré, President of the Episcopal Commission for the Clergy and Bishop of the diocese of Diébougou, in the southwest of Burkina Faso. His country, which borders on both Niger and Mali, is subject like its two neighbours to the pressures exerted by jihadist groups on all the peoples of the...
Prayers are being organised every day for the release of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, the SMA Priest who was abducted on the 17th of September in Niger. The prayer which is held on Radio Maria Liberia is being championed by the brother of the abducted Priest, Fr. Walter Maccalli who is also a missionary of...
Today the Church celebrates Pope John Paul II, the Pope of many things but more special to me as the Pope of the Youth. Thank you Pope John Paul II for initiating the World Youth Day. Thanks to the great benevolence of my Archbishop, Most. Rev Ignatius Kaigama, I was privileged to participate in two...
