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Killing of Soleimani by U.S. Could Mean New Danger for Middle East Christians
Christian communities in the Middle East are likely to suffer renewed persecution in any instability following recent U.S. airstrikes, experts have warned.
“2019 one of the bloodiest for Christians in history”: Head of Global Catholic Charity
The President of the international Catholic pastoral charitable organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Thomas Heine-Beldern, has described the just ended year, 2019, as a year with a significantly high record of attacks targeting Christians across the globe, including Africa where Christians have been murdered in West Africa.
Ivorian Cardinal Reflects on Pope’s World Day of Peace Message, Recalls Decade-old “scars”
As Catholic across the globe reflected on Pope Francis’ message for the 53rd World day of Peace marked Wednesday, January 1, 2020, an African Cardinal applied the Holy Father’s text to the situation of his country, recalled a decade-old “wounds which are struggling to heal” and called on his compatriots to take note of the Pontiff’s description of peace as “a great and precious value, the object of our hope and the aspiration of the entire human family.”
Cardinal Mueller: Church Crisis Comes from Abandoning God, Adapting to Culture
The crisis facing the Catholic Church today has arisen from an attempt – even by some within the Church - to align with the culture and abandon the teachings of the faith, said Cardinal Gerhard Mueller Jan. 1.
Should Catholics Care about Poetry?
Do you remember the last poem you read, or heard?
How Going Online Might Help you Stop Watching Porn
Watching online videos leads many men to pornography addiction. But now one set of online videos aims to lead them out.
What People With Intellectual Disabilities Can Teach Us about Friendship
When French Catholic Jean Vanier brought two men with intellectual disabilities to live with him in his home, he did so more out of a sense of religious duty than anything else.
Farmers in Zimbabwe Facing Severe Droughts, Hunger Crisis, CRS Says
As severe drought conditions continue in Zimbabwe, close to 7 million people are facing food shortages, a Catholic aid agency warned this week.
Discerning in, and discerning out: What happens when seminarians leave?
Catholic journalists know that discernment stories are popular because they give readers hope. And they often follow a pattern: They usually include a “God moment” in which the subject, through a dramatic circumstance, hears the word of God and finds with sparkling clarity the call to become a cleric or religious. They end with ordination or follow final vows.
Concerns around Reported Christmas Day Murder of 11 Christians in Nigeria
At a time when reports about terrorist attacks targeting Christians in various countries in West Africa have multiplied in recent years, the reported execution of 11 Christians in Nigeria’s Borno State by a terrorist group affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) on Christmas Day is a cause for concern, various Church leaders have shared.
Pope Francis Prays for Dozens Killed, Affected in Somalia Car Bomb Explosion
The incidence of a massive car bomb that exploded in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu on Saturday, December 28 killing at least 70 and injuring more than 140 was a focus of the Holy Father’s post-Angelus prayer Sunday, December 29.
Pope Appoints New Archbishop in Cameroon, New Bishop in Nigeria
Pope Francis has promoted a Cameroonian Bishop known for his emphasis on family, community, and traditional values to head an Archdiocese in the Central African country.
Young People in Ghana’s Keta-Akatsi Diocese Encouraged to Join Consecrated Life
In Ghana’s Keta-Akatsi diocese, during the feast of the Holy Family Sunday, December 29, young ladies were encouraged to aspire to serve God as consecrated persons by joining religious orders to become nuns.
South Sudan’s Bari Community Distances Itself from Protesters to Papal Transfer
The leadership of the Bari community in South Sudan has, in a letter, responded to critics who have termed members of the indigenous of Juba tribalists following letters signed by individuals belonging to the tribe, including some clergy of the Archdiocese of Juba, opposing the appointment of a non-Bari to head the Metropolitan see.
Islamists in Nigeria Kill Christian Hostages
The Islamic State group in Nigeria released a video Thursday claiming to show the killing of 11 Christian men.
Are millennial Christians really killing evangelization?
Millennials are notoriously blamed for being killers of previously-thought-necessary industries and activities: Applebees. Napkins. Golf. Mayonnaise. Lunch. And so on.
Sudanese Bishops ‘support unreservedly’ Papal Transfer, Regret Defamatory Letters
Several days after letters expressing rejection of a Papal transfer of a Bishop in South Sudan emerged, the heads of dioceses in Sudan and South Sudan constituting the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC) have thrown their weight behind the Holy Father and his representatives in the world’s youngest nation and expressed regrets “with great humility the inappropriate language used” in two defamatory letters.
Young People in Zambia’s Livingstone Diocese Encouraged to be Hopeful and Alive
At a pre-Christmas youth camp in Zambia’s Livingstone diocese where young people from various parishes converged for a weeklong meeting focusing on Pope Francis’ Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “to young people and the entire people of God” Christus Vivit (Christ is alive), the message of hope and being alive in Christ was emphasized in line with the Holy Father’s March 2019 document.
“Be close to united, divided, separated, reconstituted families”: Mauritian Cardinal
As Christians around the world conclude the Advent Season that ushers in the joyful celebration of God becoming man in the birth of Jesus Christ, the Cardinal in the island nation of Mauritius has, in his Christmas message, called on Christians to cultivate solidarity with all members of society regardless of religion, ethnicity, social status or any other distinguishing factors.
Catholic Education Secretariat in Senegal: Challenges, Perceptions, Opportunities
As the Church in the West African nation of Senegal prepares to officially inaugurate the new headquarters of the National Office of Catholic Education of Senegal (Onecs) in January in 2020, the Catholic Education Secretary in the country, Br. Charles Biagui, has outlined some of the challenges, perceptions and opportunities around Catholic education and called on the state to support the Church’s mission to evangelize through education.
