Abuja: One priest has been killed and another kidnapped from a parish in northern Nigeria. Father Alphonsus Bello was killed and Father Joe Keke was abducted on May 20, by a group of armed men who stormed the parish of St Vincent Ferrer in Malunfashi, in the state of Katsina,Continue Reading
Rome: The president of Italy conferred the highest honor for civil valor Oct 7 upon Fr. Roberto Malgesini, a priest who was stabbed to death near Lake Como last month. Fr. Malgesini was a 51-year-old priest known for his care for the homeless and migrants in the northern Italian DioceseContinue Reading
Syria, Nov 12 2019: Two Armenian Catholic priests have been shot to death on Nov 11 at the entrance of a church in eastern Syria. According to International Christian Concern (ICC), the Armenian Church leaders were traveling in car to Deir ez-Zor to inspect an Armenian Catholic Church which hasContinue Reading
Mexico City: A Mexican priest has been stabbed to death in his parish, the latest attack on clergy in the heavily Catholic country. Father Ruben Alcantara Diaz, 50, was attacked April 18, just prior to the 6:30 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of Carmen Parish in Cuautitlan Izcalli, the DioceseContinue Reading
Body of Jose Alfredo Lopez Guillen found in Michoacan following the abduction and murder of two priests in VeracruzContinue Reading
Saint-Etienne-Du-Rouvray: The imam of the mosque in the northern French town where a church was attacked Tuesday said he was “stunned” by the murder of the local priest, who he described as a friend. “I don’t understand, all of our prayers go to his family and the Catholic community,” saidContinue Reading
