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ISIS Executes Christian Businessman Kidnapped in Egypt’s Sinai

The Islamic State has claimed another Christian victim. And Egypt’s Coptic Ortho-dox Church has won another martyr. “We are telling our kids that their grand-father is now a saint in the highest places of heaven,” stated Peter Salama of his 62-year-old father, Nabil Habashi Salama, executed by the ISIS affiliate in north Sinai. “We are so joyful […]

Belief in witchcraft in Africa: Symposium deals with the widespread phenomenon

“Witchcraft is a widespread reality in Africa and it under-mines our coexistence. We, as the Institute for Theological Education, are interested in considering the realities around us and reflecting on them on the basis of faith,” said Brother Paul Koukovi Zipki, Director for Research and Journalism, of the Catholic Mission Institute of Abidjan (ICMA), at […]

Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC): 34 million people threatened with famine

“This year there are around 270 million people in 79 countries without access to adequate food supplies. Of these, 34 million face acute food insecurity in emergency situations and are at high risk of hunger”, said a report by the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC). To address this emergency, the ICMC, along with over 260 […]

Three-time Olympian shares her conversion story

Today, Dominique Dawes is a three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist. But back in 1996, she was a teenage girl feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. “Before the 1996 Olympic games, all of us, we were known as the Magnificent Seven being the first women’s team to win gold. And I felt, […]

Vatican considering sale of London property at heart of financial scandal

The Vatican is thinking about selling the London property at the centre of a financial scandal at the Secretariat of State, which lost an estimated $100 million in the building’s purchase. Bloom-berg reported this week that the Vatican is considering selling the former car showroom of the Har-rods department store, located at 60 Sloane Avenue […]

Police fired tear gas at Catholic Mass in Haiti

Police in Haiti reportedly fired tear gas as dozens were participating in a “Mass for the freedom of Haiti” led by Catholic bishops on April 15 as part of an ongoing national protest against recent kidnappings of priests and others in the Caribbean nation. Nearly a dozen Catholic bishops and dozens of people were attending […]

Chinese police ban pastor from receiving Christian books

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police and state security officers have prohibited a pastor from having Christian books. According to religious freedom charity China Aid, police turned up at the home of a rural minister in Linyi, Shandong Province. They demanded that he allow them to check his mobile phone. After learning that the pastor had […]

23,000 Christians reported returning to Iraq after Pope’s visit

Thousands of families are said to be returning to Iraq, just a few years after the towns were taken over by ISIS and Christians killed. Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq has apparently given hope to Iraqi Christians returning to their homeland after fleeing years of violence. Qaraqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, is Iraq’s largest Catholic […]

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