April 2019

Some radical Muslim groups do not tolerate the presence of Christians in the region. Those who abandon Islam live under constant threats. Some parishioners go to mass dressed in the burqa, to confuse extremists. After being assaulted and…

Comment this storyCommentNEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - The long, narrow village road leading to St. Sebastian's Roman Catholic Church became a gauntlet of grief on Monday.Every few blocks, another concrete-walled house in the modest, semi-rural…

On Easter Sunday, these CCTV cameras appeared to capture the moment a man entered the church to blow himself up, killing more than 100 people and injuring many more, in one of several coordinated suicide attacks in Sri Lanka. The day after…