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Syria – There has been a fresh claim from within the country that the missing Jesuit priest, Fr Paolo Dall’Oglio is still alive. According to BosNewsLife, Christians who are working locally to find the priest who went missing on July 29, insist that he is alive, though no further details were offered by way of…

Kenya – A Muslim cleric has been shot dead in an attack apparently linked to the September massacre by the al Shabab group in the Westgate mall in Nairobi. Sheikh Ibrahim Omar was targeted as he drove with four others through the city of Mombasa on October 3. Only one person survived the attack. Police…

India – A Catholic bishop has vowed to appeal the sentences handed down to seven Christians linked to a killing which sparked the deadly Orissa pogrom of 2008. On October 3, a court in the state sentenced those convicted to life, despite a lack of evidence against them and a claim from a Maoist group…