Archbishop testifies to Islamic violence against Christians in Pakistan before British Parliament

Jan 31, 2024 23:21

Amy Balog

Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Local Church•Testimonies

USA: Call for Prison Sentence for Individual Who Decapitated Sculpture of Satan

The statue was part of a scene erected, with official authorization, in the Capitol of the State of Iowa by the Satanic Temple. The decapitated head was thrown into the garbage. Michael Cassidy destroyed the statue to “wake up Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”

Dec 27, 2023 23:37

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Testimonies

Syria and Lebanon: where nuns become Santa Claus for children at Christmas time

Those receiving gifts this Christmas include the children of two widows, Farha and Nidaa, from the Lebanese village of Qaa on the Syrian border, whose husbands – the families’ sole breadwinners – were killed in a Daesh (ISIS) suicide attack in 2016.

Dec 14, 2023 14:02

Amy Balog

Testimonies

He Adored Satan While in the Prison, Until a New Adoration Chapel Changed Everything

Being innocent, a young Mexican was unjustly arrested and accused of kidnapping. He was sentenced to 70 years in prison. In jail, he embraced Satanism.

Dec 05, 2023 22:57

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Testimonies

The German Robert Barron: Monsignor Stefan Oster Says that Divisions in the German Church Are a “Disaster for the Faithful”

In an interview broadcast by the Polish Catholic Digital Gosc Niedzielny, Monsignor Oster, a firm opponent of the controversial Synodal Way, launched his harshest criticism to date on the state of the Catholic Church in his own country.

Dec 05, 2023 22:53

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians•Testimonies

Priest freed after more than a year in Islamist captivity

Father Hans-Joachim Lohre (affectionately known as Father Ha-Jo), a German priest who has lived in Mali for three decades, went missing on 20th November 2022 after celebrating Mass at a convent in Bamako, the country’s capital.

Nov 30, 2023 11:54

ZENIT Staff

Pope Leo XIV to visit Australia in 2028 for International Eucharistic Congress, according to local bishop

The clearest confirmation to date came on February 9, when Bishop Richard Umbers, auxiliary bishop of Sydney and executive director of Eucharist28, publicly stated that the Pope had personally signaled his willingness to attend

Peruvian government announces Pope’s trip; Vatican officially announces he will not visit the United States

On February 8, the Holy See confirmed that Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, has no plans to travel to the United States during the coming year, despite the symbolic coincidence of the country’s semiquincentennial

Archbishop testifies to Islamic violence against Christians in Pakistan before British Parliament

They have quadruplets and name them after evangelists

Convert Jew Is Baptized in Madrid While His Son Prepares for His First Communion

Craftswoman in Jesus’ City: A Syndrome Deforms Basma’s Face, But She Creates Beauty with Her Hands

A saintly samurai: progress and hopes for the canonization of the «Samurai of Christ

[Photo Gallery] Poignant: Eight Children Make Their First Communion in War-Torn Gaza

He Was Muslim but the Virgin Mary Appeared to Him and on Christmas Eve He Became a Monk

USA: Call for Prison Sentence for Individual Who Decapitated Sculpture of Satan

Syria and Lebanon: where nuns become Santa Claus for children at Christmas time

He Adored Satan While in the Prison, Until a New Adoration Chapel Changed Everything

The German Robert Barron: Monsignor Stefan Oster Says that Divisions in the German Church Are a “Disaster for the Faithful”

Priest freed after more than a year in Islamist captivity