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Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians raised in UK House of Lords

January 16, 2024

The jihadist extremism driving terrorist attacks across Nigeria has been raised in the UK Parliament’s House of Lords. Christians have typically been the target of such attacks. Lord Alton of Liverpool has called on the UK government to take action to help identify and bring to trial the perpetrators of recent extremist atrocities, and of previous killings

Letter and Nazi dagger reopen debates over wartime role of Pope Pius XII

September 18, 2023

ROME – Two new discoveries regarding Pope Pius XII are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting he had earlier knowledge of the Holocaust than previously believed and a Nazi dagger presented to the pontiff by a repentant SS officer. Both items were published in a Sunday insert of Corriere

Priest wins human rights award for genocide research

October 29, 2017

Fr Patrick Desbois has identified more than 600 mass killing sites

Media are ignoring genocide against Middle East Christians, says Piers Morgan

April 11, 2017

Morgan said ISIS's war on Christianity was not 'getting the attention it should get in the media around the world'

Pope Francis says he will pray, not speak, at Auschwitz

June 30, 2016

The Pontiff told reporters: 'May the Lord give me the grace to cry'

Turkey: Pope’s genocide remarks in Armenia won’t help peace efforts

June 27, 2016

A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement accused the Pope of 'bias' and said he had 'disappointed the Turkish people'

‘Christians must ask God’s forgiveness for treatment of gay people,’ says Pope Francis

June 27, 2016

The Pope spoke to reporters on his flight back to Rome from Armenia

Martyrs are witnesses of faith, not just victims of genocide, says Pope

June 20, 2016

Pope Francis spent more than an hour responding to questions during an afternoon visit to Rome's Villa Nazareth

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