Pakistan – Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has announced a special fund to help victims of the September 22 attack on a Christian church in Peshawar. During his first official visit to the region, the prime minister met with minority groups and promised that the 200-million rupee (€1.3 million) fund would be established for the…

Vatican – The 12th Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family will take place in Rome this October 23-25. The event will focus on the theme 'Family, Live the Joy of Faith' and will include a pilgrimage of families to the tomb of St Peter for the Year of Faith. "We wish to…

Hundreds of secondary school students expected at third annual Spiritan Youth Day

Fr Iggy O’Donovan to get Freedom of Borough of Drogheda for contribution to town

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Pope Francis has been lauded for his efforts on behalf of migrants by the head of the world’s leading inter-governmental organisation working on their behalf. During an audience with the Pontiff this week, William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organisation for Migration paid tribute to “the first Pope to visit Lampedusa” and hailed…

Fr Tom Deenihan appointed new CPSMA general secretary

“The lack of security that prevails in Libya has as a consequence that most religious communities that came to work in public health at the request of the Libyan authorities have been asked to leave the country.” Archbishop Vincent Landel of Rabat, Morocco, reports the grim situation for Christians in Libya during his recent visit…

The head of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), Cardinal Reinhard Marx, has called on member countries of the European Union to act together in solving the dangerous realities for migrants taking great risks to reach Europe. During an October 10 meeting with the European Commission’s President José Manuel Barroso…

Colombia – A prelate has condemned the actions of guerrillas in evicting priests form their parishes in a rural areas of the country. When he learned of the evictions in Puerto Guzmán and Puerto Leguizam, Bishop Luis Alberto Parra Mora took to the airwaves to call on the government to act at once to ensure…