It is true that the Catholic Church through the authority of Christ replaced the Hebrew Sabbath (Saturday) with the Lord's Day (Sunday); however, this occurred very early - well before the time of ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during ...

An untold number of Christians have died for their faith, with nearly 4,500 killed in 2024 alone. Day of the Christian Martyr ...

In Nigeria, the Uganda Martyrs are honoured through the Uganda Martyrs Catholic Church in Zuba, Abuja, on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital city.

But no — it is he who has to be made into the martyr, he and his family who have to be given the sympathy, and he and his family who have to be said to have suffered so much.

The 108 Martyrs include three bishops, 76 priests (51 diocesan, 26 religious), three seminarians, seven religious brothers, eight nuns and 10 laypersons. They were beatified by Pope St. John Paul ...

Namugongo Catholic Martyrs Shrine yesterday came alive with colour, song, and deep emotion as thousands of pilgrims gathered to mark C. Whispers of a heavenly sight, what many claimed was the ...

FIFTEEN Roman Catholic nuns have been declared blessed martyrs, eight decades after being murdered by Russian soldiers in Poland. One was shot while resisting rape; two others were dragged to their ...

A Catholic parish in western Russia was forced to remove an icon of a martyr and a memorial plaque to a bishop both of whom died under Soviet rule.

"The courage St. Thomas More showed by his readiness to sacrifice his life rather than betray the truth makes him, also for ...

EWTN News, Inc. is the world’s largest Catholic news organization, ... The Martyrs of Gorcum, nineteen in all, were brutally executed during the religious upheaval of the 16th century.

The Namugongo shrine is where St. Charles Lwanga, a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church, and his companions were burned to death on June 3, 1886. Some martyrs were dragged from their houses to ...