Catholic News Agency Courtney Mares & Peter Pinedo Mar 8, 2023 Original article Pope Francis met Wednesday with two young Nigerian girls who suffered horrendous violence at the hands of the Boko Haram terrorist group. Sixteen-year-old Maryamu Joseph, who escaped from the Boko Haram in July after being held against her will for nine years,…
ADF International Original article “They told me they would burn my face with acid if I didn’t do as they said,” recalled Reeha Saleem, who was one of the forced marriage victims our team has encountered. This is a Christian girl who was abducted on her way home from school when she was 16 years…
Nina Shea National Review September 27, 2022 Original article While Cardinal Zen is persecuted and held hostage by the Chinese government, the Vatican aims to renew its raw deal with the CCP. Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen, and five others, were put on trial yesterday morning, 9:30 a.m. local time, at the West Kowloon Magistrates’…
Rick Plasterer Juicy Ecumenism July 29, 2022 Original article The practice of forced organ harvesting, in which in which persecuted religious minorities in China are killed for their vital organs, was the focus of two events at the recent International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington on June 29-30. In a preliminary event, Nina Shea, Senior…
Joel Veldkamp Christian Solidarity International July 27, 2022 Original article ZURICH – Today, Dr. John Eibner, the president of Christian Solidarity International (CSI), wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urging the UN to fulfill its mandate to prevent genocide in Nigeria. Eibner also expressed his concern about the lack of a reply to a…
