Catholic Review
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A young seminarian has become the latest victim of killings in Nigeria, the West African country where attack and kidnapping of Catholic clergy is on the rise.
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A Catholic church in Kansas has been targeted in what that state’s bishops are calling a “hate crime.”
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A Republican lawmaker urged the Trump administration on March 12 to designate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” in response to violence in that country perpetuated against predominantly Christian communities.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Religious Freedom, World News
Syria’s top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country’s new Islamist rulers.
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The story of the Polish “cursed soldiers” is about the highest price one can pay for their desire for freedom and one about an unconditional trust in God.
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A Catholic pastoral center in northern Myanmar is among the latest Christian sites bombed by the country’s governing military junta.
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In what is billed as a first in history, India’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal seeking to end discrimination against socially poor Dalit Catholics in a parish in southern India.
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Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Religious Freedom, World News
Aid to the Church in Need’s call to the faithful to reflect this Lenten season on the persecution of Christians has taken on more urgency with the news that a Nigerian priest was found murdered on Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent.
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A pause on U.S. foreign aid could harm efforts to combat Christian persecution around the globe, a Catholic NGO told OSV News.
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A “silent genocide” — mimicking the Rwandan one of 1994 — is occurring eastern Congo, said some Catholic Church sources, as shock greeted the killing of 70 people in a Protestant church in the North Kivu Province.
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The British army veteran prosecuted for silently praying in front of an abortion clinic was, to his own surprise, caught in the global spotlight when his case was cited by U.S. Vice President JD Vance in a Feb. 14 speech at a landmark security conference in Munich.
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Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack.
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