How Lebanon’s First Female Militant Made Her Fight More Faithful

How Lebanon’s First Female Militant Made Her Fight More Faithful

On July 31, Jocelyne Khoueiry passed away mercifully five days before seeing Beirut destroyed, again. A key player in the civil war that once tore the city apart, she spent the rest of her life trying to stitch it back together, and all of Lebanon with it. The Beirut...
Church says Cardinal Pell returning to Vatican in crisis

Church says Cardinal Pell returning to Vatican in crisis

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ former finance minister, will soon return to the Vatican during an extraordinary economic scandal for the first time since he was cleared of child abuse allegations in Australia five months ago, a church agency said on September 28....
Thousands of mosques in Xinjiang demolished in recent years

Thousands of mosques in Xinjiang demolished in recent years

Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said on September 25, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region. Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim...
Nigerian Christians more resilient than terrorists, advocate says

Nigerian Christians more resilient than terrorists, advocate says

Christianity won’t be driven from Nigeria by Boko Haram and Fulani militants, says one human rights advocate. Christians make up about half the population of Nigeria, but have faced harsh persecution in recent years on multiple fronts, primarily from Islamic terrorist...
Salvadoran university welcomes conviction for ’89 Jesuit murders

Salvadoran university welcomes conviction for ’89 Jesuit murders

The Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador welcomed the verdict of a Spanish court, which convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murder of five Jesuit priests in 1989. The verdict was “an extraordinary service to the truth” from a conflict in...