MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA
This year’s Good Friday collection vital for Holy Land Christians
CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2021 / 07:00 am MT (CNA).- Christians will struggle to remain in the Holy Land without...
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Vatican cardinal to Catholics: This year’s Good Friday collection vital for Holy Land Christians
The letter was dated Good Friday 2021, which falls on April 2, and signed by Sandri and Archbishop Giorgio Demetrio...
Read moreIraqi refugees pleased with Pope’s visit, but say they still won’t go back
ROME — Imagine fleeing your home in the middle of the night to escape anti-Christian violence, spending years stranded as...
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Reverberations of pope’s Iraq visit felt after Francis is gone
ROME – Pope Francis’s recent trip to Iraq will undoubtably have a lasting impact on the country in ways that...
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Papal visit showed Iraqi Christians they aren’t alone, ACN priest says
NEW YORK – From his experience in Iraq in 2018, Monsignor Kieran Harrington doesn’t look at one stop, or moment,...
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Meeting pope ‘best birthday gift ever’, says father of drowned refugee children
ROME – Abdullah Kurdi, the father of the young refugee boy who death five years ago woke the world up...
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Scammer arrested after attempt to sell Turkish basilica
Istanbul, Turkey, Mar 8, 2021 / 09:47 pm MT (CNA).- Turkish authorities have arrested a scam artist who reportedly attempted...
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Bishop appointed for S Sudan’s Rumbek diocese after nearly 10 years’ vacancy
Rumbek, South Sudan, Mar 8, 2021 / 07:19 pm MT (CNA).- Father Christian Carlassare, who was appointed Bishop of Rumbek...
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Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference from Iraq
Aboard the papal plane, Mar 8, 2021 / 03:00 pm MT (CNA).- Please read below for CNA’s full transcript of...
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Full text: Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference from Iraq
So let us do this: Go to Chile in January. And then in January it was not possible to go...
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