Armenia
September 2, 2022, 9:59 am
Armenia, located in the Near Eastern Caucasus region, has been in an armed conflict with Azerbaijan for decades over control in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. In 2020, fighting broke out again....
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Belarus
August 31, 2022, 10:23 am
Of the 9.4 million inhabitants of Belarus, nearly 80% are Christians, most of them of the Orthodox faith. Catholics form a minority of around 10%. A severe political and economic...
Northern Europe
August 29, 2022, 5:20 pm
In Northern Europe, the Catholic Church only has a historically established presence in Lithuania. There, Catholics form the majority at 80% of the population, but the Church is poor and...
Pope Francis’ trip to Iraq
August 11, 2022, 6:02 pm
From 5 to 8 March, Pope Francis became the first Pope ever to visit Iraq. The Holy met state delegates and representatives of other religions, but the aim of his...
Syria
August 11, 2022, 5:01 pm
Christians have suffered greatly from the effects of the civil war in Syria. It is estimated that only one-third of the 1.5 million Christians who lived in Syria before the...
Lebanon
August 9, 2022, 3:20 pm
Lebanon has been going through economic decline and political crises for the past three years. And the situation worsened because of the pandemic and the huge explosion in the port...
Peru
July 29, 2022, 10:02 am
Peru is the third largest country in South America in terms of surface area. Its geographical diversity ranges from the Amazon rainforest to the highlands of the Andes. The majority...
Brazil
July 29, 2022, 9:12 am
Of Brazil’s approximately 213 million inhabitants, 64% are Catholic. At the same time, the number of believers continues to decline. Twenty years ago, Catholics still made up 75% of the...
Venezuela
July 28, 2022, 4:29 pm
Once rich Venezuela has been experiencing an unprecendented crisis since 2013, which has now led to famine. Almost 80% of about 33 million Venezuelans suffer from extreme poverty. Added to...