Blessed Floribert Kositi, 26, gave his life in Congo by rejecting corruption and choosing faith over blood-stained wealth ...

"Since he was a Christian, he prayed. He thought of others and he chose to be honest, saying no to the filth of corruption." ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

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Global honour The martyrs’ memorials extend far beyond Uganda, with many parishes, institutions and religious communities across Africa and beyond named in their honour.

These contradictions decayed the relationship between the two religious orders, and even the “Twenty-six Martyrs” in Nagasaki did not ease the relationship between the Jesuits and the Franciscans.

Jesuit Father-General Pedro Arrupe first used the phrase "preferential option for the poor" in a letter to the Jesuits of Latin America in 1968.

Pope Francis, influenced by the martyrs of the Latin American church, prioritized the needs of the poor and marginalized. In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia ...

The visit was part of a broader African pilgrimage, marking his first journey to the continent as the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere. From the moment he stepped onto ...

Francis was the first Jesuit pope of the Catholic Church. What is a Jesuit? What to know Pope Francis, who died Monday at 88, was the first pope of the Catholic Church from the Americas, and the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a letter sent to about 20 women who said they were abused by the Slovenian artist and former Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik, the Jesuit order on Tuesday (March 25) offered to ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.