For weeks, a shocked world has been transfixed by Russia’s murderous invasion of Ukraine. The killing and maiming of innocents by the thousands — unarmed women, children and the elderly — has been stunning. Resourceful Ukrainian soldiers have demonstrated enormous courage. And nation after nation
The parents and siblings of Akash Bashir, the 20-year-old martyr raised to Servant of God by the Vatican at the end of January, are eagerly awaiting the big church celebration to mark the 7th anniversary of his death on March 15 in Pakistan. So is his former
A blast struck a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 56 people and injuring another 196, police and hospital officials said. More than 50 people were injured in the explosion, according to Mohammad Asim, the spokesperson for
A trial began in Paris on Monday, Feb. 14, for four people charged with conspiring in the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, who is on the path to beatification in the Catholic Church. The 85-year-old Father Hamel was killed in a terrorist attack while he
An overnight raid by United States special forces in northwestern Syria led to the death of the Islamic State terror group’s top leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, President Joe Biden said Thursday. As U.S. forces closed in, Al-Qurayshi detonated a suicide bomb “in a final act of desperate cowardice,” Biden
When a suicide bomber attempted to enter a Catholic church in Pakistan in 2015, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard blocked him. “I will die but I will not let you go in,” he reportedly told the terrorist armed with explosives. The attacker then set off
It was only two weeks ago today that Catholics around the world witnessed a moving ecumenical display. A friar in a brown robe, illuminated by flashing lights from a parked police car, spoke with law enforcement during an intense hostage situation ocurring only a short
When a gunman entered a nearby synagogue in Texas and took four people hostage, including the rabbi, Father Michael Higgins and his Catholic parish sprang into action. “We got a call from the police that they were looking for a safe space for the wife
The FBI on Sunday identified Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national, as the man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in an hours-long standoff Saturday before a rescue team entered the building and killed the suspect. An FBI Hostage Rescue Team killed Akram
Christians in Nigeria’s Zamfara State have been cautioned against public worship in churches lest they be attacked, abducted, and their places of worship torched. The warning, for which a “Fulani association” claims responsibility, is contained in a letter circulated by the office of the state
