Three women charged over Notre Dame Cathedral gas canister plot
Three women accused of being part of an ISIS cell that was planning imminent attacks in France will remain in custody after a judge confirmed preliminary charges of terrorism, Paris prosecutors said on...
View ArticleFrench priest murdered by ISIS is a martyr, says Pope
To kill in the name of God is satanic, Pope Francis said at a special requiem Mass for a French priest assassinated by youths claiming allegiance to ISIS. “Fr Jacques Hamel had his throat slit on the...
View ArticleWhatever Guantanamo Bay was meant to achieve, it isn’t working
The ever-dependable Guardian carries a story that must be disturbing reading for more or less everyone apart from terrorists: it seems that a considerable number of men released from detention at...
View ArticleLaw, order and kindness: Pope outlines traits of Vatican police
Members of the Vatican police and fire departments do not just put their lives on the line to protect the Pope, but they ensure law, order and the safety of everyone at the Vatican with charity and...
View ArticleEight Christians killed leaving church as violence escalates in Nigeria
Islamic extremists said on Tuesday they killed more than 40 troops from a multi-national force in an attack on a convoy in north-east Nigeria — the fourth attack in three days following a lull as...
View ArticlePope Francis welcomes relatives of Nice attack victims at Vatican
Pope Francis met one by one with relatives of the victims of this summer’s truck attack in Nice, France, at the Vatican on Saturday, encouraging them to resist what he called the great temptation to...
View ArticleArmed police patrol Canterbury Cathedral amid terrorist fears
Police with guns are patrolling Canterbury Cathedral amid fears about terror attacks. The extra security comes after a series of jihadist attacks across Europe, including the murder of Fr Jacques...
View ArticleNormandy church where Fr Hamel was murdered by ISIS reopens
The Normandy church where Islamic extremists cut a priest’s throat and used nuns as human shields reopened on Sunday for the first time since the attack, with a special cleansing ritual and call for...
View Article‘Boko Haram will soon fizzle out’, says Nigerian bishop fighting terrorism...
The Nigerian bishop who launched a rosary campaign to defend his people against Boko Haram says the terrorist group ‘will soon fizzle out’. Speaking to the Catholic Herald, Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of...
View ArticleIraqi forces launch military push to drive ISIS from Mosul
Columns of Iraqi and Kurdish forces backed by US-led airstrikes slowly advanced on Mosul from several directions on Monday, launching a long-awaited operation to retake Iraq’s second largest city from...
View ArticleIraq will need help uniting after liberation from ISIS, says archbishop
The military operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS is not the only solution needed to get life back to normal, said Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil. The Chaldean Catholic...
View ArticlePope Francis denounces ‘brutal acts of violence’ being carried out by ISIS in...
The Pope says the cruelty of the fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul “makes us cry, leaves us without words.” Pope Francis told some 50,000 faithful gathered Sunday for the Angelus blessing that he was...
View Article12 killed as Islamist gunmen target Christians in Kenya shooting
Islamic extremist gunmen from neighbouring Somalia killed 12 people in an attack on non-Muslims in Kenya’s northern Mandera County, an official said on Tuesday. Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels claimed...
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Iraqi Catholics return to church ransacked by ISIS
There were gasps, followed by tears at a small church in northern Iraq as a group of Christians returned to their parish Sunday to find that everything had been destroyed, including the statue of the...
View ArticleIslamist ‘hyper-extremism’ could destabilise the West’s social fabric, says...
Islamist “hyper-extremism” could destabilise the West, according to a new report which studies religious freedom in all 196 of the world’s countries. Aid to the Church in Need’s survey of religious...
View ArticleAfter ISIS, there are more horrors to come
Islamist “hyper-extremism” is not only destroying the multi-faith ecology of the Middle East but also threatening parts of Africa and the West, according to a new report. The latest edition of...
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The inside story of how 226 Assyrian Christians were freed from ISIS
Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the edges international law to save the lives of more than 200 people — one of the largest groups of hostages yet documented in ISIS’s war in Syria and Iraq....
View ArticleIraqi Christians in America pray to be reunited with families at Christmas
Displaced Iraqi Christians in America have said that this Christmas they will be praying for relatives still living in their homeland. On a recent overcast Sunday morning in northwest Chicago, the pews...
View ArticleEgypt mourns Christians killed in church bombing
Egypt’s Coptic community held a funeral service on Monday for 25 Christians killed in a bombing the previous day at a church next to the main cathedral in Cairo — one of the deadliest attacks targeting...
View ArticleEgypt’s president says church attack was a suicide bombing
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Monday that a suicide bomber caused the blast that killed 24 Christians during Sunday Mass at a Cairo chapel adjacent to St Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of...
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