Pope’s Easter message calls for an end to Syria war and peace in the Middle East In his traditional Easter message from the Vatican, Pope Francis called for an end to the “carnage” in Syria and “reconciliation” in the Middle East. Thousands of people gathered in St Peter’s Square to hear him speak from...
FRANCE Nation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith Tributes have been paid across France to the heroic police officer who was killed after he offered himself in exchange for a female hostage during an Islamist attack at the supermarket siege in the small village of Trebes in southern France....
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Priest killed in assault on his parish Father Joseph Désiré Angbabata de Séko, a priest in the diocese of Bambari in the centre of the Central African Republic has died. He had been badly injured on 22 March in an assault on his parish carried out by an unknown armed group....
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Missionary forced to flee from violence sends Easter message Dear friends of ACN, For Christians, Holy Week is the foundational event of our faith, and for this reason, we should meditate on the meaning of the example of Jesus Christ for our own lives. I have been living for 12 years...
SYRIA “Holy Week is our life: passion, death and resurrection” In Homs and the Valley of Christians, they are preparing to live through the most important days for those who have been baptised, which give meaning to their presence in the country today. On Friday, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, in the...
Pope Francis sends condolences to victims of the latest terrorist attack in France Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin sent a telegram of condolence on behalf of Pope Francis to Bishop Alain Planet of Carcassonne and Narbonne. In it, the Pope said he participates in prayer in the suffering of the families of the victims of...
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...
