For two years, Bishop Vitaly Krivitskiy of the Latin Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr has been living in a time of war. Faced with a distraught population, he is organising his parishes into sanctuaries of
The civil war in Guatemala dragged on for 36 years before finally coming to an end in 1996. It was one of the most brutal armed conflicts in all Latin America, in which
In early October, terrorists killed at least 150 people, including many Christians, in northeastern Burkina Faso, revealing their increasing brutality and determination to spread terror in a country where insurgents now control over
Hundreds of thousands of children from several countries, including those which are suffering from conflicts, such as Ukraine, Lebanon and the Holy Land, or those where Christian persecution remains fierce, such as Burkina
Christians have been directly affected by the attacks in many regions of Lebanon, and the Church is struggling to help all those who have had to flee their homes for safer regions. The
The diocese of Nongstoin lies in the impoverished north-east of India, in the state of Meghalaya, on the frontier with Bangladesh. It has 22 parishes, which include a total of 1076 villages. 850
