Fiona Bruce MP, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, has received a petition from a Catholic charity calling for asylum to be granted to a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan whose life is in danger.
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In the last few days of January, Brazil reached the tragic total of 220,000 victims as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of deaths in the world due to the virus. In this context, the Amazonas region, w...
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ACN is supporting the reconstruction efforts in Lebanon.
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“It is time to return to God.” Hundreds of Cuban Catholics, priests and lay alike, see their country in a state of profound crisis and are hoping for a national dialogue that will lead to political changes.
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National Prayer Campaign Breaks New Record - Over 2000 Masses have been arranged to pray for the multitude of needs surrounding the COVID-19 situation, in turn, helping poor priests to survive.
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Coronavirus is causing the west to forget the people of Syria who are still in desperate need of healing after almost a decade of conflict – according to a nun who has risked her life to provide urgent aid.
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A series of kidnappings and acts of violence against priests and religious in Nigeria are of particular concern to Catholics in the country.
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Egypt is home to the largest Christian community in the Arab world - the Coptic Church. Reaching back to the very beginnings of Christianity and to the Apostle Mark, there are today about 8 million Copts in Egypt. But in a politically deeply divided count...
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“The situation in northern Ethiopia is alarming. Communication is very precarious and for almost three weeks the region has been totally isolated from the rest of the world. No internet or telephone. But the news we get from those who have been able to vi...
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An interview with Gérard Ouambou.
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Lebanon is the country that has taken in the highest number of refugees in the world, in proportion to its own population.
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One of the biggest stories in Pakistan in 2020 was that of Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Catholic resident of Railway Colony in the southern Pakistani city Karachi, who was allegedly abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to her 44-year-old Muslim...
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In memory of the first Venezuelan bishop to fall victim of COVID-19.
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Following bloody massacres, the Bishop of Beni appeals to the international community through Aid to the Church in Need.
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Pope Francis is due to visit Iraq from 5 – 8 March this year.
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"Without you, we could do nothing. You are the arms of God’s providence, who loves them through us. You make a material donation, and God gives you the joy of knowing that you are useful, today and in the future. And He will grant you Paradise.”
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An interview with the parish priest at the Maronite Catholic cathedral in Beirut.
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