Nicaragua bishop on hunger strike to protest police harassment
May 24, 2022
“We know that in this country insecurity comes precisely from the police, they were the ones making me feal unsafe”
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ACN calls on Christians to join World Day of Prayer for the Church in China, May 24
May 20, 2022
On May 24th all Catholics are called to express their solidarity with Christians in China, to promote unity in a community that had become divided into "official" and " underground...
Anti-Christian violence and curfew follow killing of girl in Sokoto, Nigeria
May 17, 2022
Episodes of anti-Christian violence erupted in Sokoto, Nigeria, over the weekend, following the horrific murder of a young Christian student accused of blasphemy.
Church leaders deplore violence during burial of Christian journalist in Holy Land
May 17, 2022
“What happened last Friday deeply wounded not only the Christian community, but also all peoples who in that place have found and still find peace and hospitality."
NIGERIA: Christian student stoned and burned to death in Sokoto
May 13, 2022
Terrible murder of Christian student, Deborah Yakubu, stoned and subsequently burnt to death in northern Nigeria.
ACN deplores murder of Fr Joseph in Kaduna, Nigeria
May 12, 2022
Fr Joseph from the Diocese of Kaduna, Nigeria, was kidnapped on 8 March. Yesterday ACN received the official confirmation of his death.
Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen arrested
May 12, 2022
Yesterday, Cardinal Joseph Zen was arrested by the authorities in Hong Kong. After some hours the Cardinal was set free on bail.
Kidnapping of Fr Whatner Aupont highlights Haitian crisis
May 6, 2022
A wave of unrest and kidnappings is causing a breakdown of national life in Haiti according to Mons Launay Saturné,
Pakistan: “I spent eight years on death row after being falsely accused of blasphemy”
May 6, 2022
In July 2013, Shagufta and Shafqat Emmanuel, a Catholic couple in Mian Channu, a small town 155 miles south of