Pope Francis has chosen not to travel in a bullet-proof vehicle for his first trip to Egypt this week, despite a recent spate of terrorist attacks targeting the country’s Christians. The Pope will fly from Rome to Cairo on April 28 for a two-day visit intended to...
In its newly released annual report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is urging the State Department to designate or re-designate 16 nations as “countries of particular concern” (CPCs) because they are nations in which there are...
Following a surge of attacks on Egypt’s Christians, a Coptic Catholic bishop said that there is no need for Western nations to come to their defence. “If there were oppression on the part the State or government, these sorts of remarks might make sense,” said Bishop...
France’s Catholic primate has condemned the current presidential campaign as his country’s “worst ever” and urged Christians to help prevent democracy from “losing its sense.” “Left and right rivalled each other and had their radical wings, but there was also a...
