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THE ‘CRADLE TO GRAVE’ STRATEGY OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION: REPORT

The UK “should lead the way” in tackling unprece-dented levels of Christian persecution a Conservative MP said on January 17. Teresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet was speaking at the launch of the annu-al World Watch List, a survey of global Christian compiled by the Christian Charity Open Doors. The report reveals that 3,000 Christians […]

In Eritrea Clinics and schools closed: the regime prohibits Christian social activities

“In Eritrea, the regime has begun to persecute religious confessions and, in particular, the Catholic Church. The object-ive is clear: to try to prevent its influence on society: not by prohibiting worship, but social activities.” This is the alarm launched by Mussie Zerai, a priest of the eparchy of Asmara, for years a chaplain of […]

Study asks: Why are young Catholics going, going, gone?

A new report on young adults who no longer identify as Catho-lic is attempting to understand why so many have “disaffiliated” from the faith they were born into. It comes at a time when more young people than ever before are leaving the church, even as those losses are being off set by His panic […]

The Catholic priest who was Robert Louis Stevenson’s spiritual father

Mention of the name Robert Louis Stevenson instantly brings to mind his three enduring classics: Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I should add a fourth: A Child’s Garden of Verses, a charming reconstruction in verse of a child’s imaginative world. What most lovers of his fiction will not know, however, is […]

Poll shows a strong majority of Americans want restrictions on abortion

As of 2017, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling. Currently, 57% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 40% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Though abortion is a divisive issue, more than half of U.S. […]

Hundreds of Muslims convert to Christianity in Austria

The on-going refugee crisis has indirectly led to Austria recording a significant number of Muslims who converted to Christianity. Three quarters of the 750 baptized adults in 2017 are immigrants from Muslim countries, citing the official spokesman for the Archdiocese of Vienna. Only in the Austrian capital, 260 people representing 15 different nations have been […]

Russia can have twice as many churches in 30 years – Metropolitan Hilarion

If the Russian Orthodox Church continues to develop with the current rates, the number of its churches can reach 80,000 in 25-30 years thus reaching pre-revolutionary number. “Now the number of churches is reaching 40,000. At such speed in 30 years we will have 70,000 or 80,000. The number of monasteries exceeds 900, there were […]

Communist ideology similar to Christianity – Putin

Communists did not create their own ideology but adapted Orthodox Christianity to their needs, Russian President Vladi-mir Putin said. “Lenin [‘s body] was placed inside the Mausoleum. How is that different from any relics of the saints for Orthodox Christians or Christians in general? I am told: “No, there is no such tra-dition in the […]