Tag: Christian persecution

WASHINGTON  -- A pause on U.S. foreign aid could harm efforts to combat Christian persecution around the globe, a Catholic NGO told OSV News. Shortly...

DUBLIN -- From Sydney to Santiago, Chile, Catholics across the globe are coming together this November to stand in solidarity with those who suffer...

In another chapter of an "evil scheme" plaguing Nigeria, the southern Enugu Diocese asked for prayers for Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide, who was kidnapped...

On the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief, observed on the United Nations' calendar Aug. 22,...

MANCHESTER, England -- The Catholic Church has failed to defend Christians effectively, partly because it historically accepted persecution as part of its "community story,"...

St. Perpetua, a noblewoman, and St. Felicity, a slave, were bound together in death when they were executed for the crime of being Christian...