
PAKISTAN: Bishops condemn lynching of Christian man
All of Pakistan’s Catholic bishops have denounced the lynching of a Christian Sri Lankan man by a…

MALI: Jihadists steps up terror campaign
Jihadists in central Mali are escalating offensives in an effort to seize swathes of the region and…

UK: Charity head receives papal honour
The UK head of a leading Catholic charity has been given a papal knighthood in recognition of…

IRAQ: Christian home fire-bombed in Iraq
A bomb attack on the home of a Catholic shopkeeper in southern Iraq has been condemned by…

UK: UN must recognise forced conversions as crimes against women – Nazir-Ali
An urgent appeal to the UN to add forced conversions and forced marriages to the list of…

NEWS BRIEFING: New report shines light on extremist assaults on Christian girls
On Wednesday (24th November) Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be launching a…

UK: Bishop to join second leg of ACN’s Scottish pilgrimage
A bishop will be joining the pilgrimage of a leading Catholic charity that retraces the steps of…

Raped Christian girl, 3, suffering “psychological distress”
A Christian girl in Pakistan who was raped, aged three, by the husband of her school principal,…

UK/INTERNATIONAL: Cross-party parliamentary support for ACN’s petition
The petition of a leading Catholic charity, calling on the UN and UK government to tackle the…

BURKINA FASO: Extremists hunt Christians
A leading Catholic charity has received anonymous reports that terrorists in Burkina Faso have instigated a killing…

ETHIOPIA: ‘We saw much suffering – many were killed’
A Catholic missionary, unnamed for security reasons, has given a dramatic account of his escape from the…

INDIA: Reconversion campaign terror
Christians in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are living in fear after radical Hindutva activists…