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Don't forget Sudan' pleads priest as war enters third year
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (696+ words) AS Sudan marks three years of devastating civil war, a priest has warned everyone not to ignore the world's worst humanitarian crisis. In an interview with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Father Diego Dalle Carbonare, a…...
Desperate plea for solidarity after violence erupts again in Jerusalem
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (632+ words) AN urgent call for the Church worldwide to redouble efforts to stand in solidarity with the faithful of the Holy Land has come after the latest outbreak of violence in Jerusalem." Palestinian Christians were among those at risk when thousands…...
Nigerian priest released from "Den of Kidnappers
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (471+ words) A PRIEST in north-west Nigeria has been set free after being held captive by terrorists for three months. Father Nathaniel Asuwaye was kidnapped on Saturday, 7th February, when gunmen attacked Holy Trinity Parish in Karku, Kaduna State, where he serves as…...
Gardener who experienced "spectacular" experience in Virgin Mary"s house to cycle to Jerusalem
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (657+ words) A MAN who encountered a "life altering and life affirming" experience while on holiday in Turkey is set to cycle 2, 246 miles to Jerusalem. Andrew Foote had an "intimate and potent experience" when visiting the House of the Virgin Mary, near…...
Faith should never justify violence" say Muslims after church attack
6+ day, 18+ min ago (477+ words) MOZAMBIQUE'S Muslim community has condemned ongoing attacks by jihadists in the north, who have increasingly targeted Christians. Following an assault on St Louis de Montfort Church in Minhoene village, near Meza, Cabo Delgado Province, the Islamic Community of Mozambique (ICM) contacted…...
Exiled Iraqi bishop returning as patriarch, warns: "Fear cannot define our future
1+ week, 3+ day ago (581+ words) A decade after being forced to flee Iraq during the brutal rise of Deash (ISIS), an archbishop is returning to become head of the country's Chaldean Church " bringing a message of firm belief tried by suffering. Speaking ahead of his…...
Bishops demand deaths stop as another church attacked
1+ week, 5+ day ago (543+ words) A Senior Church leader has demanded that the murders and mayhem end in northern Mozambique, after a historic church was reduced to rubble during a jihadist attack. Archbishop In'cio Saure of Nampula, president of the Bishops" Conference of Mozambique, made…...
Priests on Ukraine's front-line witness "growing search for meaning'
2+ week, 5+ day ago (521+ words) AS war rages in Ukraine an archbishop has told of the courage of priests on the front line ministering where fighting is fiercest." Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)…...
If there is silence nothing will change" says former secretary general on religious freedom
3+ week, 6+ day ago (957+ words) THE first black former Secretary-General to the Commonwealth of Nations has said that conflicts would heal if people of all faiths and none were "willing to come together in one voice and say, "not in my name. Baroness Patricia Scotland…...
Charity condemns destruction of crucifix
3+ week, 6+ day ago (537+ words) A CATHOLIC charity has condemned an attack on a crucifix after images went viral showing a soldier in southern Lebanon smashing the religious symbol. According to statements issued today and yesterday (19th and 20th April) by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the…...