Albanian Catholics are descendents of those who embraced the Faith in the early centuries A.D. And they held to the Faith through 400 years of Ottoman rule and, more recently, an extreme totalitarian regime that […]
For centuries on end, Ireland remained a bedrock of Catholic faith, even through dire persecution. The little country at the edge of Europe became among the world’s leading exporters of missionaries. But, for almost five […]
Year after year, Islamic extremists in Nigeria have been perpetrating massacres. And, year after year, major media outlets in the West tend to frame these incidents as general banditry or climate change-related land struggles between […]
Though some sources mention 16th-century Portuguese colonialism as the beginning of Christianity in Sri Lanka, many other sources say that Christianity arrived no later than the 5th-century A.D. In fact, some sources claim that Saint […]
For all the territory it covers, the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS) operates somewhat under the radar. Established by Pope John Paul II in 1985, the AMS serves both in the U.S. and […]
For their religious dissent against a despotic ruler, 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts were martyred in the historical kingdom of Buganda (now part of Uganda) between November 1885 and January 1887. June 3 is […]
Regardless of its particular goals, every publication ultimately has to give its readers what they want. And about a century ago, the thing many U.S. readers wanted most was anti-Catholic content. In that era, anti-Catholicism […]
Catholicism has never been easy in Myanmar. The Church first arrived in 1514, but failed to find enduring success, as fledgling missions were either driven out or abandoned. Not until 2017 did the Vatican finally […]
With temperatures often dropping under 40 degrees below zero, Mongolia is not an easy place for anyone. Nor has it been easy for the Catholic Church. The faith arrived in Mongolia in the 1300s, but […]
The term “genocide” is one of the more emotionally-charged words in the English lexicon. But there’s something yet more extreme about an autogenocide, in which the perpetrators belong to the same ethnicity as the victims. […]
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