PAKISTAN: Church leaders welcome increase in legal marriage age in Pakistan
THE Catholic Church in Pakistan has applauded an amendment to the Christian Marriage Act raising the legal…
NIGERIA: Leaders accused of inaction amid ongoing killings and food crisis
Eight months after hundreds of Christians were massacred on Christmas Eve and three months after another carnage…
EGYPT: Plans to build more churches as religious freedom returns
A decrease in the influence of Islamist extremism in Egypt has made it possible for Christians to…
BANGLADESH: Jesuits open their first training centre
The Society of Jesus has set up its first-ever novitiate in Bangladesh, where less than half a…
UNITED KINGDOM: Crosses damaged by jihadists to join exhibition
Three crosses that suffered damage when extremists seized Iraq’s Nineveh Plains are to be added to an…
NIGERIA: Kidnapped priest goes free
Nigerian priest Father Mikah Suleiman was released last night (Sunday, 7th July) after more than two weeks…
PAKISTAN: Desperate plea for Christian man put on death row
The head of the Catholic Church in Pakistan has lambasted a court for passing the death sentence…
UKRAINE: Priests freed from Russian captivity
Two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests have been released 19 months after they were seized by Russian authorities…
MOZAMBIQUE: Church destroyed but Christian community standing strong
Four years after Islamist extremists destroyed their church, Catholics in a north-east Mozambique parish are still gathering…
NEWS BRIEFING: Widow of Pakistan mob attack victim dies
Alla Rakhi, the widow of the Nazir Gill Masih, has died. Their family home in Sargodha was…
NEWS BRIEFING: Yet another Nigerian priest is kidnapped
Father Mikah Suleiman, the parish priest of St Raymond Damba Church in Damba, Gasau, Zamfara State was…
INTERNATIONAL: Charity raises £121 million to help Christians in need
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) completed 5,573 projects in 138 countries last year,…