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Family looks for answers after Christian boy beaten to death in Pakistan

After the death of their teenage son on his third day of school, his family says they just want to know what happened. On their son’s third day of high school, the parents of 17-year-old Sharoon Masih learned that he had been in a fight, had suffered a serious injury, and been taken to the […]

Francis corrects Sarah: Liturgical translations not to be ‘imposed’ from Vatican

Pope Francis has issued a public correction to an article by Cardinal Robert Sarah about the changes the pontiff made last month to how the Catholic Church’s liturgies are to be translated from the original Latin into local languages. In the correction, which takes the form of a letter to Sarah but the Pope asks […]

How Holy Communion Saves Catholic Priest From Kidnappers

God is still in the business of deliver-ing His servants, no matter what cynics say. This was amply demonstrated in Ebonyi State when kidnappers who abducted a Catholic priest dozed off after drinking the holy communion wine found in the parish. After observing that they were asleep, Reverend Father Timothy Nwanja who was kidnapped on […]

Patriarch Kirill urges to base legislation on law of morals

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that moral sense shared by all nations should be laid in basis of legislation in every country of the modern world. “No matter how different our countries, nations and establishments are, we all have moral sense, each of us has the voice of conscience, in other words, […]

Russia’s Catholics recall their ‘gulag martyrs’ 100 years after Lenin’s revolution

When the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution falls this autumn, Christian com-munities across the former Soviet Union will comme-morate the persecutions it unleashed upon them. But they’ll also recall the religious meditations born in the country’s prisons and labour camps, some of which deserve to rank with the best in Christian history. Though often viewed […]

What’s driving Muslim refugees to Christianity?

Hundreds of Muslim refugees have converted to Christianity across Europe in recent years, according to church leaders, but motives vary. In Austria, the rolls of Catholic churches swelled with Muslim immigrants, leading to new guidelines for baptism to ensure sincere faith. Other churches in Lebanon, Germany, and England also report growing numbers of Muslim refugee […]

Bishop hopes Amazon Synod leads to married priests and woman deacons

A retired bishop who led Brazil’s largest territorial diocese for some 34 years says he’s hoping the 2019 special Synod for the Pan-Amazon region will lead to the ordination of married men to the priesthood and women to the permanent diaconate. Bishop Erwin Kräutler, an Austrian-born missionary who headed the sprawling Diocese of Xingu in […]

Global Catholic population increases by 12.5 million

The number of Catholics in the world increased by 12.5 million in 2015 to a total of nearly 1.3 billion people. Figures reported by the Fides News Service show an increase on all continents, except Europe. Africa saw 7.4 million new Catholics, North and South America 4.8 million, Asia 1.6 million and Oceania 123,000. Europe’s […]