By John Burger http://www.aleteia.org Posted 2015-03-15 08:28 GMT A flurry of international advocacy for Christians under siege in the Middle East has been complemented this week by intensified prayer on their behalf, as Syria marks four years of civil war and a Vatican official spoke in support of the use of force in the...
L-Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) flimkien mas-Sorijiet tal-Klarissi ta’ San Ġiljan jirringrazzjaw lil dawk kollha li attendew għan-‘Night of Witness’ li ttellgħet nhar it-Tlieta, 10 ta’ Marzu 2015 ġewwa l-Kappella tal-Monasteru tagħhom. Fost kant, talb, filmati fuq il-persekuzzjoni reliġjuża fl-Iraq u Via Sagra bit-titlu “It-Triq tas-Salib ma’ ħutna ppersegwitati madwar id-dinja”, tliet xhieda...
Date: 9.2.2015 Chaldean Patriarchate: Press statement The Chaldean Patriarchate expresses its deep concern regarding the situation of the innocent civilians within the conflict areas in the region. The so-called “organism of the Islamic State” is burning everything: human beings, stones and civilization. On the other hand, as the Iraqi army beside mobilized populations Alhashid...
Ukraine 11 March 2015 From reports to the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need Bishop Bronislaw Bernacki is stunned. “No one expected that another war would be carried out on European soil in this day and age,” the Roman Catholic bishop of Odessa-Simferopol said during a visit to the international...
04 March 2015 12:19 by Liz Dodd Another four Christian hostages have been freed by Islamic State jihadists in Syria, according to a television channel dedicated to Assyrian news. Assyria TV yesterday spoke to people who met the four former hostages, a married couple and a mother and her 6-year-old daughter. The circumstances of their release are...
Königstein/NEW DELHI (March 9, 2015)— “Three policemen tried to drag me away. But I resisted. Then half a dozen of them lifted me up—with one even choking me by the neck—and put me in the police bus.” His priestly garb gave Father Dennis George little protection, he told international Catholic charity Aid to the Church...
“O Father, know that our faith today is much stronger than before.” Rome, March 06, Here is the letter to Pope Francis from Iraqi Christians living in Jordan who have escaped violence and persecution from the Islamic State. The letter was given to the Holy Father yesterday by Fr. Rif’at Bader, director of the Catholic Center...
