Persecuted Christians

Chinese oppression ‘worse than US reported

05/08/2020 at 10:33 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
'Christians want international community to pay attention to China's religious and human rights situation UCA News reporter, China, May 5, 2020 Chinese Christians have welcomed a damning US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report but said religious oppression in China... read more

CATHOLIC HOSPITALS UNDER ATTACK

04/30/2020 at 12:35 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Wesley J. Smith, First Things, April 15, 2020 Catholic hospitals are under unremitting attack—from prestigious medical journals, media, and lawyers in courtrooms. The goal is to coerce these venerable institutions into replacing their faith-based methods of medical practice with secular... read more

It’s Time to Treat the Church’s Essential Services as Essential

04/29/2020 at 4:25 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
COMMENTARY: What God provides humanity through the Church is as essential a service as ever. Fr. Roger Landry Blog, April 28, 2020 In different parts of the United States and other parts of the world, we are reaching what many are calling “Phase 2” in the response to the coronavirus... read more

UK health service clarifies policy to deny care to ‘homophobic’ patients

02/20/2020 at 2:21 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency, February 19, 2020 Britain’s National Health Service has clarified a new policy that will allow patients found to be homophoic, racist, and sexist to be denied non-emergency treatment. “A person’s personal beliefs or any historical views... read more

Pope’s co-signed document on God willing ‘diversity of religions’ celebrated on 1st anniversary

02/07/2020 at 10:44 AM By Kevin Edward White
There's a strong push to spread the flawed message throughout the world in the name of 'tolerance' and fraternity' and as a charter for 'mutual respect.' By Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews, February 6, 2020 The first anniversary of Pope Francis signing the Abu Dhabi Document on Human Fraternity... read more
Richard Décarie

Canadian conservative party may block leadership candidate for calling homosexuality ‘a choice’

02/03/2020 at 5:06 PM By Kevin Edward White
Some senior Tories are asking the Conservative Party to block social conservative Richard Décarie’s leadership candidacy because of his allegedly bigoted views. By Lianne Laurance, LifeSite News, February 3, 2020 Some senior Tories are asking the Conservative Party to block social... read more

Writers’ body to take Nigerian crisis to the Vatican, White House

01/25/2020 at 11:35 AM By Kevin Edward White
Christians are subjected to all sorts of violence in this West African country By Lucie Sarr, LaCroix, January 17, 2020 The Human Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has said it would inform Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump about the repeated attacks on Christians in... read more

Rome’s Shame in China

01/22/2020 at 5:19 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Robert Royal, January 13, 2020 China is a large, strange, complex, contradictory thing, even before you get to the large, strange, complex, contradictory, and murderous form of Communism that has come to dominate its various peoples. No one understands it very well. But those closest with a... read more
Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa

01/02/2020 at 1:39 PM By Kevin Edward White
Archaeologists now can more closely date when the religion spread to the Aksumite Empire Site By Andrew Lawler, SmithsonianMag.com, December 10, 2019 In the dusty highlands of northern Ethiopia, a team of archaeologists recently uncovered the oldest known Christian church in sub-Saharan... 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

My Thoughts on Chick-fil-A’s Decision and the Leftist Mob that Pushed Them

11/21/2019 at 1:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
November 20, 2019 by Jim Daly News of Chick-fil-A’s decision to reprioritize their charitable giving and part ways with faith-based organizations like the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has understandably disappointed its legions of Christian supporters,... read more

Chinese Catholics barricade themselves in church to prevent demolition

11/04/2019 at 10:01 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Report: Christianity may disappear from Syria and Iraq—a call for international intervention

10/30/2019 at 9:47 AM By Kevin Edward White

Student Slander and Provocation Unchecked

10/28/2019 at 5:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Pope Francis endorses claim that US Christians are engaged in ‘ecumenism of hatred’

09/29/2019 at 11:51 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Chinese Totalitarianism and Catholic Witness

09/29/2019 at 11:34 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Taiyuan, pilgrims flock to save Shrine of Our Lady from destruction

09/17/2019 at 9:54 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

China plays no favourites. It persecutes all religions

09/09/2019 at 9:37 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Vandals attack newly finished Texas pro-life pregnancy center

09/03/2019 at 8:58 AM By Kevin Edward White

Dominican Nuns in Tuscany vs. the Vatican, with Help from the Locals

08/21/2019 at 6:35 AM By Mary Anne Hackett