WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As violence devastates Nigeria's Christians daily, a U.S. Catholic bishop has urged his country's secretary of state to partner with Nigeria to fight extremism. The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, Bishop A.
The April 1 attack on a Spiritan seminary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the most recent one in a series of incidents involving Catholic Church targets, amid the worst violence crisis in Haiti in several years.
A group of armed criminals invaded the Petit
Amid persecution, Christians must "be a sign of hope," said the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
"Hope is our weapon, hope is our shield," said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych in a homily he gave at a March 10 Mass
With an estimated one in seven Christians worldwide facing persecution, OSV News recently sat down with Regina Lynch, who in June 2023 was appointed the executive president of Aid to the Church in Need, an international pontifical foundation that supports the church
At least 15 people were killed in an attack by gunmen on Catholics gathered for Sunday Mass in a Burkina Faso village Feb. 25, according to multiple news reports.
Twelve Catholics were dead at the scene in the village of Essakane, with another
Russia's war on Ukraine, now at the 10-year mark, aims to "eliminate the existence of the whole nation," warned the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
"We can testify that what is happening right now in Ukraine is genocide," said Major Archbishop
In a recent communiqué, the Catholic Bishops of the Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province made an urgent and heartfelt appeal to all Nigerians, encapsulating a wide range of concerns that touch upon the very fabric of the West African nation’s well-being. They vividly describe
Nigeria is one of the countries in the world with the best Mass attendance. As many as 94% of self-identified Nigerian Catholics surveyed said they attend weekly or daily Mass, according to a study published in early 2023 by Georgetown University's Center
The head of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem has described as "heartbreaking" an incident of being spat at by Jewish extremists in the Old City, describing the suspects as "hooligans of religion."
According to police, two Jewish Israelis were detained Feb. 3, the
More than 100 people were killed and 300 injured in Nigeria's Plateau state Dec. 23-24, 2023, in what some news outlets attributed to clashes over land between farmers and herders amid ecological changes brought about by climate change. But Bishop Wilfred Chikpa