Paul Keenan“I believe with all my heart and all my strength and mind that I will be resurrected. Salvation will soon come to me as well.”
Imprisoned Christian Asia Bibi, reacts to news that her blasphemy appeal has been postponed indefinitely by a court in Pakistan
"Of course, we forgive them for all they have done to us because we are the followers of the one who says ‘Father, please forgive them because they don't know what they are doing’."
Iranian Christian pastor Farshid Fathi, who, along with fellow inmates of Evin prison was brutalised at Easter by prison guards. Fathi was hospitalised after his beating.
“May the world heed the cries, tears and the prayers of the children of Syria. What is the point of all this carnage tantamount to a war of extermination?”
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III calls for international help following a bomb attack on a Damascus playground left one child dead and 60 seriously injured.
“This decision shows that they…have an inadequate and mistaken understanding of their faith.”
Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto, Canada, criticises plans by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association to send a delegation to the gay pride parade, WorldPride 2014, in the city.
“It is of vital importance we solve the violence problem. This will be a widespread dialogue we are all invited to take part in. Of course [the Church] will be participating.”
Archbishop Jose Escobar Alas of El Salvador backs renewed negotiations to secure the fragile 2012 truce between gangs in the country.
“The fact that we now know sexual abuse of children is a pervasive problem throughout our society does not, and must not, allow us in the Church to use this as some kind of perverse excuse. As a Church we have failed terribly.”
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, in a letter released ahead of Royal Commission hearings into abuse of children in the region.