Islam

Can Interreligious Dialogue Be Truly Religious?

03/15/2021 at 10:59 AM By Kevin Edward White

COMMENTARY: The papal response to this question, as first answered by Benedict and then by Francis as shown during his visit to Iraq, indicates both continuity in substance and a difference in style. By Fr. Raymond J. De Souza, National Catholic Register, March 12, 2021 At the heart of the... read more

Attacker of religious sister arrested amid spate of anti-Catholicism in Austria

11/02/2020 at 8:36 PM By Kevin Edward White

CNA Staff, Nov 2, 2020 After a Catholic religious sister was attacked on a bus, police have arrested a 19-year-old Afghan, according to police in the Austrian state of Styria. The attack came among a spate of anti-Catholic attacks and demonstrations in Austria. Between 30 and 50 young... read more

What Catholics Need to Know About Islam

09/04/2020 at 4:50 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

BY WILLIAM KILPATRICK, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 Nothing facilitates jihad like ignorance of Islam. And since there is so much ignorance, jihad has been spreading rapidly. But we don’t seem to notice. We hear scattered reports about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, and Iran.... read more

French Jews protest anti-Semitic violence in Paris.

In France, a killer’s successful insanity defense sparks outrage

01/06/2020 at 11:27 AM By Kevin Edward White

By Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 31, 2020 An appeals court ruling that a man who killed a Jewish woman in her home while shouting Quranic verses is unfit to stand trial is prompting outraged reactions from French Jews who fear it sets a dangerous precedent that will... read more

ISIS terrorists mark Christmas by beheading 10 Christians on video

12/27/2019 at 2:00 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, December 27, 2019 Ten Christians were beheaded and one other was shot dead by an ISIS-linked group in Nigeria in an act designed to coincide with Christmas. A video recorded before the execution in the war-torn state of Borno shows a group of 12 men and... read more

Author with Fulani men in Nigeria.

The New War Against Africa’s Christians

12/20/2019 at 1:45 PM By Kevin Edward White

Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. By Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, Dec. 20, 2019 5:16 pm ET A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive... read more

There were over 800 extremist attacks in West Africa in 2019

12/19/2019 at 1:38 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency, December 19, 2019 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso- Extremist attacks have risen dramatically in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, from 180 incidents in 2017 to more than 800 violent attacks in 2019, according to the Center for Strategic and International... read more

Pius XII, Francis, and the Media

12/14/2019 at 4:30 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

By William Kilpatrick, The Catholic Thing, December 14, 2019 [ Our Catholic Citizens Forum Luncheon on October 11, 2019 featured William Kilpatrick. The subject of his talk was "Catholics, Islam, and the Risks of Complacency."--Ed.] John Cornwell’s 1999 smear of Pius XII, Hitler’s Pope,... read more

Vatican Archbishop: those who say Judas is in hell are ‘heretics’ and priests may ‘accompany’ assisted suicides

12/12/2019 at 4:57 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

By Diane Montagna ROME, December 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — In a statement difficult to reconcile with Scripture and Tradition, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has claimed on behalf of the Catholic Church that anyone who says Judas Iscariot is in hell... read more

Pope Francis petitions UN for new annual secular celebration of ‘human fraternity’

12/11/2019 at 11:09 AM By Kevin Edward White

By Diane Montagna, LifeSite News, December 9, 2019 In the latest sign of the importance Pope Francis attributes to his contentious Abu Dhabi interreligious initiative, he has now united with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt, Ahmed el-Tayeb, in petitioning the United Nations to declare... read more

Burkina Faso bishop: As violence continues, ‘nobody is listening’

12/05/2019 at 7:46 AM By Kevin Edward White

Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, Dec 5, 2019 / 12:09 am (CNA).- Following the death of more than a dozen Christians in a church shooting over the weekend, a Burkina Faso bishop said Western governments have a responsibility to stop the flow of weapons to militants in the region. Kientega argued that... read more