(Damascus) On the 14th and 15th of June the Syrian army regained control of Kasab.    The city, inhabited by Armenians city in northwester...

The Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overrun by Islamists have asked Pope Francis and the universal Church for help. Vatican...

Qom (AsiaNews) - Shia scholars have translated the Catechism of the Catholic Church into Persian. A group of translators from the University...

(Saigon) Persecuted by the communist regime, he used the chains that robbed him of   freedom to pray the rosary. Nguyen Huu Cau converted...

Edit: I just ripped off the whole story from the site. It's a good story, it's just that there's so much advertising on Catholic...

(Jakarta) on the 15th of October Archbishop Antonio Filipazzi, the Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia, just opened a meeting there on the 50th A...

Diocese of Hong Kong: UN to demand religious freedom of Beijing - Four arrested underground priest 17th September 2013 10:07 | Note to edito...

Edit: here's the translation of Katholisches.  Usually, it's on Asianews, but since they haven't translated it into English yet,...

Self-professed child molester-literatur and chairman of the Green Party in the European Parliament, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, apparently wants to ...

Edit: this article from Haeretz is hardly defender of Christians in Syria, but it does put a light on their plight. Of course, she seems to ...

(Islamabad) The now 42-year old Catholic mother has been unjustly accused, since 2009, of insulting Islam. It is a triviality to charge some...

(Hanoi) The situation of Christians in Vietnam, one of the last Communist "paradises", is very difficult. The regime varies in its...

(Colombo) A group of Buddhists devastated the Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Angulana, in the Archdiocese of Colombo in Sri Lanka....

Edit: an increasingly US brokered war continues in Syria as Catholics and Orthodox Christians are being driven from the land. Damascus, 22...

Pope Franics received John Cardinal Tong, the Bishop of Hong Kong, on Tuesday.  The theme of the audience was the situation of persecuted Ch...

(Rome)  It will now be only 116 and not 117 Cardinals who will participate in the Conclave in order to elect the next Pope.  The 78 year o...

Edit: this is probably one of the most genius comments written this year. Bangkok (kath.net/KNA) Ryosuke Inagaki (84) emeritus Philosoph...

(Bagdad) On the same day in which the Syrian-Catholic Cathedral was solemnly re-consecrated, the Grand Ayatollah issued a Fatwa against th...

Edit: post edited to reflect proper dating criteria, Anno Domini, instead of the Godless C.E.. The article says that the site was "Ne...

The traditional Rite in Japan In Japan the Catholic Church has a difficult situation.  Its presence in the population is almost hardly r...