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Armenian Patriarch Minassian: Persecution has strengthened Christian hope and identity
Armenian Catholic Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian emphasized the significance of his Church’s centuries-old and continuing presence in the Middle…
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Archbishop Moth urges UN to act against global persecution of believers
Archbishop Richard Moth of Westminster in England issued “a vital call to action in support of people around the world…
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Last Chinese Trappist monk to survive Maoist persecution dies at 108
Father Benedict Chao, the worldʼs oldest Trappist monk and the last survivor of the community that suffered communist persecution in…
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Nigeria, Nicaragua, Syria, India cited in index of rising Christian persecution
International Christian Concern (ICC) released its 2026 Global Persecution Index, offering an in-depth analysis of the persecution Christians face in…
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Miami archbishop, top U.S. diplomat decry persecution of Church in Nicaragua during Holy Week
During Holy Week, the archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and the second-in-command at the U.S. State Department, Deputy Secretary Christopher…
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Church in Venezuela could undergo more persecution in 2026, experts say
Caracas skyline. | Credit: Olga Berrios, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Jan 1, 2026 / 10:00 am (CNA). 2026…
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Church in Venezuela could undergo more persecution in 2026, experts say
Caracas skyline. | Credit: Olga Berrios, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Jan 1, 2026 / 10:00 am (CNA). 2026…
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Catholic News - General
Trump vows more strikes on Nigerian militants due to Christian persecution
Flag of Nigeria on soldiers arm. / Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 26, 2025 / 18:22 pm (CNA).…
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Christian persecution in Nigeria: 1,200 churches destroyed annually, hundreds killed
Nigerian security officers during a military operation ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Benin City, Edo, Nigeria, on Sept. 17,…
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Catholic News - General
‘I don’t have a village anymore’: Priest decries insecurity, persecution in Nigeria
Father Vealumun Paul Ansbert Mom, the superior general of the Via Christi Society in Nigeria, has decried the state of…
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