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Persecution of the faithful: the greatest story never told

July 08, 2022

Peninah was only 24-years-old when her husband Paul was murdered by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Kenya. Attackers with Kalashnikovs, lined the men up in the street and demanded they recite sections of the Koran. Paul was a Christian and they shot him. In Afghanistan, the Taliban dragged Zabi’s 60-year-old Christian father away into the night. After

Catholic parents forgive suicide bomber who killed their son in Pakistan

January 10, 2017

The couple's son died in the attack by Pakistani Taliban group Jaamat-ul-Ahrar on Easter Sunday

Westminster Cathedral to be floodlit in red to highlight plight of persecuted Middle East Christians

August 10, 2016

'If every parish in the country did the same it might at last wake up our political classes to the scale of the suffering,' Aid to the Church in Need has said

Visiting child victims of Lahore bomb was ‘truly difficult’, says archbishop

March 31, 2016

Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore says he went from bed to bed listening to accounts of the attack

Pope Francis urges Pakistani government to protect Christians

March 29, 2016

A breakaway faction of the Taliban said it targeted Christians on Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday bombing aimed at Christians kills 70 people

March 28, 2016

The attack in Lahore, Pakistan, left 14 Christians dead along with many Muslims

Pope Francis ‘accepts invitation to visit Pakistan this year’

March 04, 2016

Despite reports by the country's news agencies the Vatican says 'no travel programme' is currently being studied

Irish emigrée saga needs more wind in its sails

November 05, 2015

Child actor, James Digiacomo, steals the show in Brooklyn, says Will Gore

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