ACN calls for prayers for Nicaragua: “We are witnessing an attempt to silence the Church in Nicaragua”
August 25, 2022, 12:00 pm
Priests and a bishop under arrest and attacks of profanation: an attempt to silence the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
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22 August: ACN remembers victims of religiously motivated violence
August 22, 2022, 10:29 am
"You don't have to be murdered to be a victim; it is enough to have your basic freedoms restricted."
Assault on Coptic Christian woman in Egypt goes unpunished
August 19, 2022, 2:00 pm
“He assaulted another Christian woman from the village. He has done this repeatedly, but women are afraid to file reports against him”
Christian minor escapes forced conversion in Pakistan
August 17, 2022, 2:50 pm
“He placed a handkerchief, soaked with intoxicating chemical, on my face”
Kidnappings and forced conversions are “a human rights issue”, says Pakistani archbishop
July 14, 2022, 3:16 pm
“The cases of kidnappings, sexual assault, and forced conversion and marriage are a problem in Pakistani society”
“Priests have become an endangered species in Nigeria”
July 12, 2022, 4:06 pm
at least 18 priests have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the beginning of 2022, five in the first week of July alone. Although most were released unharmed, three were killed.
Catholics in Guinea-Bissau unsettled by vandalism of a church
July 8, 2022, 2:57 pm
In the first such incident in the country’s history, several images were destroyed in a church that had recently been
Bishop shocked with murder of priests in Nigeria: “Nobody is safe anymore”
June 29, 2022, 1:27 pm
“People are afraid, and rightly so. People are traumatised, and rightly so.”
Mexico: shooting of two Jesuits raises number of murdered priests in the past three years to seven
June 24, 2022, 3:12 pm
Two Jesuit priests were murdered by armed men inside a church in Mexico