Map of the Democratic Republic of Congo / Shutterstock
Rome Newsroom, Jan 16, 2023 / 03:00 am (CNA).
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a Protestant church service on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo…. […]
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CNA Newsroom, Jan 11, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
Dozens of abductees are still being held in captivity following the Christmas Day attack on Angwan Aku Village in Kaduna, a state located in the north of Nigeria, a Catholic pries… […]
Map of Nigeria. / Shutterstock
St. Louis, Mo., Dec 16, 2022 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A Nigerian musician is taking a case to the country’s Supreme Court challenging a death sentence he was given in 2020 for “blasphemy,” a case his lawyers hope will ov… […]
Denis Mukwege and Pope Francis at the general audience, May 22, 2019. / Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Dec 9, 2022 / 04:18 am (CNA).
Pope Francis met Friday with Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a Congolese physician known for his work tre… […]
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 1, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Islamist terrorist groups are unleashing a new wave of violence and persecution to build a “transnational caliphate” stretching from west Af… […]
Angelus address on June 12, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 30, 2022 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis prayed on Sunday that God may “convert the hearts of the violent” after an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist attack in Somalia.“As we celebr… […]
Fr. Jacques Hamel. / Diocese of Rouen, Wikipedia.
Denver Newsroom, Jul 26, 2022 / 15:04 pm (CNA).
Six years after Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by knife-wielding terrorists while celebrating Mass at his parish church in northern France, loc… […]
After the U.S. State Department released a list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) – a designation reserved for countries whose governments either engage in or tolerate violations to freedom of religion – in mid-November, […]
Fr. Rhoel Gallardo (1965-2000). / Courtesy of the Claretian Missionaries.
Rome Newsroom, May 7, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The sainthood cause opened this week of Fr. Rhoel Gallardo, who died on May 3, 2000, after being held for 43 days by Islamists… […]
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