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South African bishop decries government inaction on alleged ISIS operations

August 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), Bishop Sithembele Anton Sipuka. / Credit: SACBC

ACI Africa, Aug 12, 2024 / 13:18 pm (CNA).
The bishop of South Africa’s Mthatha Diocese has raised concerns that the aut… […]

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Iraqi priest recounts night of exodus, ISIS invasion a decade later

August 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Martin Banni in front of St. Barbara’s Shrine carrying the Eucharist on Liberation Day in 2016. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Martin Banni

ACI MENA, Aug 7, 2024 / 11:21 am (CNA).
Ten years have passed since the night that changed ev… […]

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As new altar is consecrated at destroyed Iraq church, former parishioner recalls ‘wonderful days’

April 18, 2024 Catholic News Agency 15

Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako presides over the dedication ceremony of the altar of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mosul, Iraq. April 5, 2024. / Credit: Fadi Dinkha/ACI Mena

CNA Newsroom, Apr 18, 2024 / 06:00 am (C… […]

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Kidnapped by ISIS, priest in Iraq recounts story of facing fear with faith

April 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Archbishop Mazen Mattuka with Father Pius Affas at the Monastery of St. Banham and Sarah in Iraq. / Source: Facebook page of the Monastery of St. Banham and Sarah

Mosul, Iraq, Apr 14, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The plight of Mosul’s Christian commu… […]

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Victim of Istanbul attack was a Muslim who often went to Catholic Mass

January 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro arrives at the Jan. 29, 2024, funeral of Tuncer Murat Cihan, 52, who was murdered during Sunday Mass at Santa Maria Italian Church on Jan. 28 in Istanbul, Turkey. / Credit: Sercan Ozkurnazli/Getty Images

Rome Newsro… […]

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Remembering the night the ‘city of Christians’ fell to ISIS in Iraq

August 6, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Duha Sabah Abdullah, the mother of David Abdullah, who was killed when ISIS shelled the Catholic city of Qaraqosh in Aug 6, 2014, meeting Pope Francis in March, 2021 in Iraq. / Photo credit: Raghed Ninwaya/ACI MENA

Qaraqosh, Iraq, Aug 6, 2023 /… […]

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A ‘bolt out of the blue’: Pope Francis sets off an ecumenical earthquake

May 12, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 48

Pope Francis made history on Thursday, when he added to the Roman Martyrology the names of twenty-one Coptic Christians martyred in Libya in 2015, giving them a date on the Roman calendar of saints and […]

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A harrowing chronicle of Christians suffering under Islamic rule

April 2, 2022 Jerry Salyer 9

Although it does allude to many different episodes of the abuse meted out to Christians by their Muslim neighbors, especially in Pakistan, The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands […]

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French president visits Catholic church in Iraq damaged by ISIS

August 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

French President Emmanuel Macron tours Our Lady of the Hour Church in Mosul, Iraq, Aug. 29, 2021. / Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images.

Rome Newsroom, Aug 31, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).
French President Emmanuel Macron met this week with Iraqi Chris… […]

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Fr. Jacques Hamel: Catholic priest honored 5 years after he was killed at Mass in terrorist attack

July 26, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Fr. Jacques Hamel. / Diocese of Rouen via Wikipedia.

Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, Jul 26, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Catholic Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen celebrated a Mass on Monday marking the fifth anniversary of the murder of Fr. Ja… […]

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