Nun slain by three teenagers in satanic sacrifice beatified as martyr

A nun who was brutally stabbed in a satanic sacrifice was beatified a martyr on 6th June in the northern Italian city where she served. Pope Francis commended the beatification of Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, a 60-year-old member of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross, after praying the Angelus the same day with... Read More

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November 8, 2020

Lebanese cardinal: Country’s ‘political authority has murdered its people’

Lebanon’s “political authority has murdered its people,” Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, said at the closing Mass of the synod of Maronite Catholic bishops from around the world. “The authority has killed its people economically, financially, and in terms of living and development. It thrust them into a state of loss, anger, despair, revolution, emigration... Read More

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May 14, 2020

Nigerian bishop: Murdered seminarian had courage of a martyr

A murdered Nigerian seminarian had the courage of a martyr, his bishop said after three men were arrested for murder and kidnapping. One of the suspects said Michael Nnadi was killed because he kept asking his kidnappers “to repent and turn their lives around from their evil ways”, said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto.... Read More

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May 22, 2019

Pope prays for Spanish missionary murdered in Central African Republic

Pope Francis led thousands of pilgrims in prayer for a Spanish missionary sister killed in Central African Republic. While greeting French pilgrims attending his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square today (Wednesday), the pope said he was saddened to hear of the brutal murder of Daughter of Jesus Sister Ines Nieves Sancho, a 77-year-old... Read More

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May 21, 2019

El Salvador lays to rest another priest presumably assassinated by gangs

Thousands attended the funeral on Monday of a Salvadoran priest found by his parishioners in what some presume is a gang killing. Parishioners found Father Cecilio Perez Cruz, a 35-year-old priest and pastor of San Jose La Majada parish in Juayua, shot dead in his residence on Saturday with a note nearby that said he... Read More

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May 2, 2019

Pro-IRA graffiti at Lyra McKee murder scene warns ‘informers will be executed’

Pro-IRA graffiti has appeared in Derry warning the community against helping the police. The slogans appeared this morning in the Creggan area, metres from where journalist Lyra McKee was killed on 18th April. She was shot by a dissident republican linked to the New IRA who fired indiscriminately at police lines during disturbances over the... Read More

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April 3, 2019

Missing woman’s sister breaks down at site where she was last seen

The sister of a missing 25-year-old Catholic woman broke down in tears at the site where her sister was last seen 14 years ago as she urged anyone that could help to find her to come forward. Joanne Dorrian made the plea as her family revisited the caravan park where Lisa Dorrian was last seen... Read More

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