The greatest challenge is to retain hope Rome/Königstein, 11.06.2014. “We have never witnessed anything like it before. A large city like Mosul plunged into chaos and at the mercy of the groups that have attacked it”. That is how Chaldean Archbishop Amel Shimon Nona of Mosul has described to ACN the tragic situation facing Iraq’s...
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Zanzibar
Mathew Limo* from Zanzibar: “They want to convert my children to Islam” Mathew Limo knows what to expect when he goes to church with his family. On the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, where 98 % of the population is Muslim, Christians are given the cold shoulder. The past year has been characterized by renewed violence against Christians. So far...
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“Can Christianity survive Persecution?”
The conference opened 12th of may in the morning at St John Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. His Em Cardinal MAURO PIACENZA President of ACN International concelebrated high mass with the visiting Church dignitaries and the Maltese Archbishop Mgr Paul Cremona, the Auxiliary Bishop Mgr Charles Scicluna, HB the Patriarch of Syria Gregorios III and other dignitaries....
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Nigeria: An account of the March 2013 attack on St Martin’s church in Ganye
Geoffrey Puli, the parish secretary of St Martin’s in Ganye, Nigeria, gives a blow-by-blow account of an extremist attack on the church in March 2013. Youtube