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Bangladesh – Police in the country are investigating a Muslim school of Koranic learning following an explosion thought to have taken place as militants prepared a bomb there. One person died in the explosion. The madrassa, in Chittagong is now suspected of being a site regularly used by militants as a cover for its activities.…

“The lack of security that prevails in Libya has as a consequence that most religious communities that came to work in public health at the request of the Libyan authorities have been asked to leave the country.” Archbishop Vincent Landel of Rabat, Morocco, reports the grim situation for Christians in Libya during his recent visit…

Past failings should not deter the Church from speaking out

Call casts doubt on Labour’s assertion that embassy was closed for spending cuts

Monsignor Nicholas O’Mahony elected as Diocesan Administrator

The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has accused The Irish Times of “a rush to judgement” in linking the death of Savita Halappanavar to the issue of Ireland’s abortion laws. In the wake of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) report on the October 2012 death of the expectant mother at Galway’s University Hospital, the…

Pakistan – Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has announced a special fund to help victims of the September 22 attack on a Christian church in Peshawar. During his first official visit to the region, the prime minister met with minority groups and promised that the 200-million rupee (€1.3 million) fund would be established for the…

A parish priest in Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim has described as “exasperating” the sixth act of vandalism against his church since the start of the year. Speaking to The Irish Catholic following his discovery of the latest paint attack on St Mary’s Star of the Sea, Fr Anthony Alexander expressed his sadness at the repeated targeting…

India – A Catholic bishop has vowed to appeal the sentences handed down to seven Christians linked to a killing which sparked the deadly Orissa pogrom of 2008. On October 3, a court in the state sentenced those convicted to life, despite a lack of evidence against them and a claim from a Maoist group…