#War

Myanmar: Catholics fleeing. Catholic seminary volunteer killed in Loikaw

There is no one left in seven parishes in the diocese of Loikaw (Deemoso, Dongankha, Tananukwe, Donganrao, Domyalay, Kayantharya and…

Chaos in Chad, missionaries’ reports: “the situation has deteriorated. It always happens at the expense of the people”

President Idriss Déby Itno was killed by rebels. The military took over power and will retain it for 18 months…

Yemen: EU, 95 million euros’ humanitarian aid. Population threatened by war, Covid and famine

Pope Francis in Iraq: Card. Sako (Patriarch), “The lockdown is not an obstacle to the visit. Beautiful messages from Muslim leaders, such as Muqtada al-Sadr. In Najaf the first steps of a journey”

With less than three weeks to go to Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq (5-8 March), the Iraqi government announced new…

Syria: EU-sponsored conference in Brussels on 29 and 30 March. “Supporting the future of the country and the region”

Nagorno-Karabakh. Ferrari (Ca’ Foscari): “A genocide of Armenian cultural heritage in the territories transferred to Azerbaijan must not be permitted”

“Cultural Genocide.” Armenian culture scholars are concerned about the fate of the millennial cultural and religious heritage of the Armenian…

Nagorno-Karabakh: Borrell (EU High Representative), “ceasefire, just the first step to put an end to the conflict”

Nagorno-Karabakh. The appeal of Msgr. Minassian (Yerevan): “Human life is much more precious than oil or gas”

Escalating tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Over 320 have fallen on the battlefront, with deaths…

Lebanon. The Maronite priest called by Pope Francis during the audience: “We need miracles to overcome this crisis.”

Interviewed by SIR, Father Georges Breidy describes the experience of standing alongside the Pope, who called for a day of…

Russia: Moscow, an exhibition on “Christian martyrs – Victims of Nazism” dedicated to Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox martyred priests

Tension in Korea. Msgr. Lazarus You (Daejeon): “We are brothers and sisters. Please allow us to work”

Tension erupted after North Korea blew up the liaison office with South Korea in Kaesong and threatened to send troops…