Jihadist terror forcing Christian girls to wear burqas

May 03, 2023 02:13

ZENIT Staff

Meeting of Hindus and Catholics in Rome. Photo: Vatican Media

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

A decade on – kidnapped archbishops still missing

Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan Boulos Yazigi and Syriac-Orthodox Metropolitan Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim were seized in the area between Aleppo and the Turkish border. They were travelling to negotiate the release of two priests – Armenian Catholic Michael Kayyal and Greek Orthodox Maher Mahfouz – who had been abducted by jihadists.

Apr 27, 2023 18:42

John Newton

Interview•Local Church•Testimonies of Faith

Interview with the Person in Charge of Aid to the Church in Need’s Projects in Africa, to Understand the Situation in Sudan

Sudan is Africa’s third largest gold producer, and Hemedti owns gold mines in the north of the country.

Apr 27, 2023 18:36

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Rome

Orthodox Copts Will Celebrate Mass in Pope’s Cathedral: Vatican Explains Why

The Patriarch will not celebrate at the Pope’s altar, he will have his own place where he will perform the Divine Liturgy in the Coptic rite.

Apr 25, 2023 21:54

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Local Church

The Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia switches to the Gregorian calendar

The Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavia will switch to the Gregorian calendar on September 1, 2023 (the beginning of the Indictus, i.e., the New Liturgical Year), is stated in the decree of the Apostolic Exarch Bishop Bohdan Dziurakh.

Apr 25, 2023 21:42

ZENIT Staff

Local Church

USA: Church takes stand on Supreme Court ruling on abortion drug

The bishops expressed their tremendous disappointment at the ruling, as innocent lives will be lost and the woman consuming it will be endangered.

Apr 23, 2023 06:43

ZENIT Staff

Leo XIV perfects the mission of the Pontifical Academy for Life

The 2026 update is narrower in scope. Its most visible innovation is the formal introduction of “collaborators” — a new category distinct from the academy’s academic members.

Pope Leo XIV, the US-Iran war, and a forceful call in a Middle East on the brink of the abyss

The reverberations are being felt most acutely by Christian minorities already living on fragile ground

L	M	X	J	V	S	D
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

Jihadist terror forcing Christian girls to wear burqas

Sudan: As fighting breaks out, priests remain with their flocks

Russia and Ukraine Contradict Pope Francis: They Are Unaware of the Vatican’s Peace Mission

Pope Francis’ Effect in Hungary: The Country’s President Pardons Some Prisoners

Will Art Pieces Be Returned to Countries That Request Them from the Vatican? Pope Replies and Reveals That a Ukraine-Russia Peace Mission Is Underway

How To Be a Winner in Life? Pope Francis’ Answer to Young People in Hungary

USA: study reveals what men who will be ordained priests in 2023 look like

A decade on – kidnapped archbishops still missing

Interview with the Person in Charge of Aid to the Church in Need’s Projects in Africa, to Understand the Situation in Sudan

Orthodox Copts Will Celebrate Mass in Pope’s Cathedral: Vatican Explains Why

The Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia switches to the Gregorian calendar

USA: Church takes stand on Supreme Court ruling on abortion drug