Ireland and North Macedonia have ‘strong spiritual ties’ Ireland and North Macedonia have “strong spiritual ties”, the Balkan country’s foreign minister told Dáil Éireann, referencing the inspiring effect of Irish nuns on Mother Teresa. “Many things and similarities connect North Macedonia and Ireland,” Dr Bujar Osman said on May 10. He added that it…
Students from Dublin and Limerick scooped the top prizes on Monday as part of the 2023 Trócaire Game Changers and Right Focus competition. Trócaire Game Changers is an annual competition that invites students to create a development education game that focuses on one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students played and…
The scale of the persecution of Catholics under the regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has been laid bare by a new report chronicling 529 attacks in the last five years alone. Jesuit Fr Kevin O’Higgins, who spent decades working in Latin America, told The Irish Catholic the report is “vital” in highlighting the crisis…
The Government’s hate speech bill has the potential to cause “immense damage” to free speech and democracy in Ireland, according to the former Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland. Baroness Nuala O’Loan, a member of the House of Lords, has said the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 will create great…
A priest who became known around the world for his ministry at the time of the 1998 Omagh bombing has been remembered as a warm-hearted pastoral man. Fr Kevin Mullan died in the early hours of Saturday morning and was buried following Requiem Mass in his native Omagh on Tuesday. In a demonstration of the…
The legalisation of euthanasia puts pressure on the elderly and people with disabilities to “simply dispose of themselves”, political party Aontú has insisted in their manifesto released this week. Aontú launched the party’s local election 2023 manifesto on Tuesday in Belfast. It also highlights the political crises facing the North and the need to push…
Christians in northeast Nigeria are living a “tortured” existence due to continued attacks my Islamist terrorists, an African priest based in Athlone has warned. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Innocent Sunu who is now a curate in Ss Peter and Paul church, told of the “dehumanisation” of Christians in his Diocese of Maiduguri, and…
The Irish Government has said it remains “gravely concerned” regarding the situation of a bishop jailed by Nicaraguan authorities. In response to a parliamentary question from Carol Nolan TD, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said the detention of Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa diocese was “unacceptable”. The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega…
Graphic content of Christian persecution, reader discretion is advised Decapitation, mutilated bodies and gunfire haunt a Nigerian priest now based in Ireland, but adoration always helps, Chai Brady hears Reports of the tens of thousands of Christians killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists over the last decade do not reflect the true horror faced by…
Madagali: An account of a parish surrounded by terrorists, Chai Brady writes For Fr Innocent Sunu, who was the parish priest of embattled Madagali parish in the Diocese of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, the attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram on the evening of February 19, 2020 will stay with him more than the…