Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those ...

By Kate Scanlon, OSV News The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan US government ...

Nigeria has become the most difficult place to live as a Christian. According to an April 2023 report by the International ...

Like Jesus, Paul spoke to people in their homes ... Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of ...

In his remarks, Leo acknowledged that many eastern rite Catholics have been forced to flee their homelands because of “war and persecution, instability and poverty.” It was a reference to the ...

He praised those Christians who are working at reconciliation even in regions where they are persecuted minorities, and urged them to continue. “I thank God for those Christians — Eastern and ...