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International rights groups called attack ‘a serious escalation’ against Indonesia’s Christian minorityPolice in Indonesia were on Saturday hunting suspected militants accused of killing four people said by rights groups to be Christians, beheading one…
Read MoreFrancis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new bookPope Francis has for the first time called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for year…
Read MorePope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state who says the Catholic church too soft on BeijingMike Pompeo will visit the Vatican to protest against the imminent renewal of a deal between the Catholic church and China, which the US sec…
Read MoreReligious authorities around the world limit contact and close places of worshipCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIranian police have dispersed crowds who forced their way into two popular shrines soon after they were closed b…
Read MoreBibi, freed last year and now in Canada, will release her autobiography on WednesdayAsia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, has released two photographs taken in exile, as she prepares for the launch…
Read MorePontiff urges disarmament as he tours Japan’s atomic bomb sites and meets survivors of the 1945 attacksPope Francis has condemned the “unspeakable horror” of nuclear weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities destroyed by American a…
Read MorePope Francis arrives in Bangkok to boost morale of tiny minority of Catholics and speak about human trafficking Continue reading…
Read MorePalmerston North’s Bishop Charles Drennan quits after woman complained of ‘unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature’A New Zealand Catholic bishop has resigned after a young woman accused him of engaging in “unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature”, …
Read MoreArchbishop says sorry ‘in the name of Christ’ over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised “in the name of Christ” for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when hundreds of people were shot dead by Britis…
Read MorePresident Rodrigo Duterte’s violent crackdown has left 20,000 dead, and in a devout country, he has repeatedly hurled insults at bishops, the pope – and even God. But only a handful of Catholic activists are brave enough to speak out. By Adam WillisOne…
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