AsiaNews: The “age of martyrs is not yet over, even today we can say, in truth, that the Church has more martyrs now than during the first centuries. The Church has many men and women who are maligned through calumny, who are persecuted, who are killed in hatred of Jesus, in hatred of the faith. Some are killed because they teach the catechism; others are killed because they wear the cross . . . Today, in many countries, they are maligned, they are persecuted . . . they are our brothers and sisters who are suffering today, in this age of martyrs.” Read more here.
