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Persecution of the faithful: the greatest story never told

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

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Easter is feast of hope, patriarchs tell beleaguered Middle Easterners

Eastern Catholic patriarchs related the Easter message of Resurrection and hope to the political situations in the Middle East.

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Iraq’s Christians are still waiting for a miracle

A year ago Pope Francis made an historic pilgrimage to Iraq. Journalist John Cookson covered the visit for the Catholic Herald and now he’s returned to discover if the papal visit has changed the lives of the country’s beleaguered Christians. This is the first of two reports.

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Religious diversity should not be a source of division, Iraqi cardinal says

One of Iraq’s leading Catholic prelates has said the quest for unity among Christians should not focus on the pursuit of uniformity but should rather embrace the diversity of the various rites and traditions in Catholicism.

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