Tag: Christian Persecution

The first funeral services for the victims of a jihadi suicide bombing inside a Damascus church were held as Syrian Christians have been left deeply traumatized by the horrific massacre during Sunday's Divine Liturgy on 22 June. At least 25 people were killed and dozens more injured in a shooting spree and bombing inside the packed church.

Christians in Syria are reeling after a suicide bombing struck a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus during a 22 June Divine Liturgy.

Faithful on two continents are praying for the safe return of a Nigerian priest who once served in Alaska, and has been kidnapped in his home country.

As millions of pilgrims flocked to the famed Ugandan shrine in Namugongo in the days leading to commemoration of the country's 45 Christian martyrs, local authorities prevented an attempted terror attack in what they said was a swift secret service operation, possibly saving hundreds from imminent death.

Catholic bishops in Kenya are demanding a full investigation into the suspicious deaths of two priests within days of each other, calling the incidents deeply disturbing.

Despite a lot of silly media and internet speculations about the effects of a US-born pope on the world political scene, Pope Leo XIV’s immediate priorities will likely be ecclesiastical rather than geopolitical.

In Nicaragua, Catholics celebrated Palm Sunday under intense government scrutiny, as police and paramilitaries surrounded Managua’s cathedral and restricted Holy Week activities to church grounds.

Christians living in Pakistan are being sent to “almost certain death” in Afghanistan. Will Australia intervene to help?

"No one knows the end" of recent deadly violence in Syria, said Maronite Archbishop Antoine Chbair of Latakia and Tartus.

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers.

A brutal massacre in the North Kivu province of eastern Congo, which left 70 people beheaded by Islamists in a Protestant church on 15 February, has drawn international condemnation.

The largest organisation of women and men religious in Latin America called for the "respect of life" of women and men religious in Nicaragua 29 January, following online reports overnight that a group of Poor Clares has been expelled from the country.