Catholic Culture reports: Armed with guns and Molotov cocktails, thousands of Muslims attacked Coptic churches and neighborhoods in a Cairo, provoking sectarian violence that led to at least 12 deaths and 232 injuries. Several news reports identified the attackers as … Continue reading
Agenzia Fides: Human rights trampled and denied freedom of religion, more than 50 thousand Christians in prison camps for their faith, victims of a judicial system based strictly on ideology of the regime: this is the picture of the situation … Continue reading
Catholic Online: Despite the diverse situations that form the background of these events, Cardinal Bagnasco reflected, the “the Middle East is certainly the region with the highest tension; there, Christianophobia, which is the most current version of religious intolerance, is … Continue reading
Asia News: Opened 20 years ago, the orphanage is home to about 100 disabled boys and girls. The government wants to take it over and send away the 30 nuns who care for the children in an attempt to undermine … Continue reading
Zenit News; As the date for Benedict XVI’s mid-September trip to Scotland and England draws closer, the anti-religious hostility is becoming more intense. Full report is here.
UCANews reports: Officials in northern China’s Hebei province have rearrested Father Peter Wang Zhong of Xiwanzi moments before he could walk to freedom following a three-year prison term. News report is here.
Catholic Culture reports: Violence against Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul– the modern name for ancient Nineveh– has led over 1,000 Christian families to flee in the past ten days, Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa said on … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: Muslim gangs attacked three villages in central Nigeria and killed up to 400 Christians in pre-dawn attacks on March 7. “The shooting was just meant to bring people from their houses, and then when people came out … Continue reading
The persecution of the small minority of Christians in Pakistan is diabolic. This Catholic man lost his son and his home and is now in hiding for his life. The Pakistan Christian reports: Rawalpindi: January 29, 2010. (PCP) A Christian … Continue reading
CWN reports: Following an August 1 attack by 800 Muslims on Christians in the northeastern Pakistani city of Gojra, Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad led a protest against government tolerance of anti-Christian violence. Bishop Coutts charged that “a banned Islamic … Continue reading
Let us hope and pray that the persecution now in force in Vietnam will continue to ignite the Catholic people and win converts from among the Buddhists. Would it not be a glorious triumph of Our Lady if this country, … Continue reading
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