An attack on Mar Elias Church in Al-Duwaileh, Damascus, by a suicide bomber reportedly killed 22 and injured 59 people on June 22, 2025. / Credit: Mohammed Al-Rifai/ACI MENA
ACI MENA, Jun 23, 2025 / 12:06 pm (CNA).
The death toll from the attac… […]
Despite being Yazidi, a religious minority that has suffered persecution in Iraq, Wael Jejo Khdeida, along with his wife, tends to Mar Odisho Church in northern Iraq without pay and treats it as sacred. / Credit: Ismail Adnan/ACI MENA
ACI MENA,… […]
The Catholic bishops in Nigeria’s Onitsha ecclesiastical province have condemned recent attacks in Benue state that reportedly resulted in the death of some 200 people and called for fasting and prayer in honor of the victims. / Credit: Nigeria … […]
Cameron Mumford on pilgrimage in Jerusalem. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Cameron Mumford
Rome Newsroom, Jun 19, 2025 / 11:06 am (CNA).
Cameron Mumford came to Jerusalem on a solo Catholic pilgrimage to retrace the steps of Christ. By the end of … […]
Delegates at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2025. / Credit: ACI Africa
ACI Africa, Jun 18, 2025 / 09:46 am (CNA).
Martha Karambu Koome, the chief justice in Kenya, called upon delegates at the In… […]
Over 450 boys and girls received their first holy Communion during liturgies held over the past month in various churches of the town of Qaraqosh, Iraq. / Credit: Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq
ACI MENA, Jun 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA… […]
Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025. / Credit: Red Confidential/Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA).
Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata … […]
Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï. / Credit: Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need
ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 16, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian popu… […]
St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. / Credit: Harmony Video Production/Shutterstock
ACI MENA, Jun 6, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy… […]
Fairbanks, Alaska, Bishop Steven Maekawa, OP, said he plans to offer a special Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Fairbanks for Father Alphonsus Afina, who was captured by Boko Haram on June 1, 2025. / Credit: RadioKAOS, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimed… […]
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