Tag: Religious freedom
21-year-old seminarian Andrew Peter kidnapped and murdered in Nigeria: ‘Life has...
A young seminarian has become the latest victim of killings in Nigeria, the West African country where attack and kidnapping of Catholic clergy is...
A Door of Hope files federal lawsuit challenging signage required by...
A Delaware crisis pregnancy center is challenging a new state law in federal court, contending the statute is an infringement on its free speech...
Central American bishops call for prayers as Nicaragua slides deeper into...
BUENOS AIRES -- In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for a...
Russia’s ‘Kremlin chokehold’ continues with ban of religious websites that provide...
Russia's latest blockage of Western religious websites and social media accounts tightens the Kremlin's chokehold on Russian residents' information access, the editor of a...
Caritas and 14 non-governmental groups stripped of legal status in Nicaragua;...
Nicaragua has revoked the legal status of the Caritas chapter in the Diocese of Matagalpa and continued arresting priests and laity there, delivering another...
Another group of exiled Nicaraguan priests arrives in Rome
VATICAN CITY -- Seven priests detained by police and paramilitaries in Nicaragua in early August have been exiled to Rome and arrived safely, the...
‘Parishes are on their own,’ says Nicaraguan priest as regime’s repression...
At least 11 churchmen have been detained by police and paramilitaries over a weeklong assault in northern Nicaragua, depleting the already demoralized Diocese of...
More than 120 Christians believed killed by Islamist rebels in Congo:...
VATICAN CITY -- Condemning the killing of Christians in Congo, Pope Francis said the sacrifices of modern martyrs are seeds that grow into examples...
Mexican bishops meet with presidential candidates about the churches’ ‘fundamental role...
MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican bishops' conference met with the two main presidential candidates less than a month after the front-runner said she disagreed...
Nicaraguan regime continues exercising control over religious activities during Holy Week:...
CUERNAVACA, Mexico -- Catholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited public exhibitions of...