Despite constant terrorist attacks suffered by Catholics in Burkina Faso from Islamic fundamentalists, vocations to the priesthood have increased in recent years, especially in dioceses located in “danger zones.” Nearly 40% of seminarians come from these localities,...
The president of the German Bishops’ Conference and the Bishop of Magdeburg expressed their shock and offered prayers after a car attack at a Christmas market in eastern Germany on Friday, December 20 left five people dead and more than 200 injured. Bishop Georg...
Pope Francis called on Ca-tholics to become “pilgrims of hope” in a BBC podcast on 27 December, emphasizing that “hope and kindness touch the very heart of the Gospel.” Speaking just days after the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year, the pope emphasized that “kindness...
“You have become the light of our Church in the entire world,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Gaza Christians Dec. 22 during a pre-Christmas visit aiming to bring the joy of the season to the suffering Christian community in the Gaza Strip. After passing the...
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, issued a new review documenting how 2024 is, by every measure, ‘one of the worst years for children’ worldwide on record and how their human rights are being violated in the most damaging and brutal of ways. Having analysed the latest...
