Cardinal Charles Bo of Yan-gon has appealed for peace and freedom in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people, including Christians, continue to bear the brunt of an ongoing civil war between the military and ethnic rebel groups. “As a nation and as a people, let us...
Members of the Christian Awakening Movement Pakistan demanding the resignation of Member of Parliament Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali for insulting the Bible during a speech at the national assembly, at the Islamabad Press Club on April 1st. Christian groups in Pakistan...
Some 200 people were forced to flee their homes in Bangladesh after eight tribal Christians were killed on Maundy Thursday in a gun battle between two insurgent groups in a remote village in the restive Chittagong Hill Tracts. They fled their homes fearing further...
In the first week of April the French bishops voted in favour of opening a beatification cause for the late Cardinal Henri de Lubac, a celebrated theologian whose writings influenced not only the Second Vatican Council, but every pope since. De Lubac was one of...
Janada Marcus, 22, spent more than a year in Boko Haram captivity. Mariya Joseph, now a teen-ager, was kidnapped by Boko Haram when she was 8 years old. She escaped last August, after more than eight years in captivity. Marcus told The Pillar that meeting the pope...
