Approximately 15 years ago, the St. Boniface church in San Francisco started opening its doors for homeless people in need of shelter. Father Louis Vitale of the church along with community activist Shelly Roder, started the effort, which is known
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The only Christian family in their area were beaten and saw their house set on fire last week in a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Then they were told they will be killed if they return. The family – an
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The UK Government’s decision to reject calls for buffer zones around abortion clinics has been welcomed by pro-lifers. Home Secretary Sajid Javid made the surprise announcement after a consultation into the measures that received over 2,500 responses. Although there were
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Parish church becomes impromtu relief center to distribute much-needed supplies to victims on Lombok Island. A parish that suffered damage in a deadly earthquake that recently struck the tourist island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara province has become an
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Nadeen, a born and raised Yemeni woman in her late twenties, is not new to the faith. Before a civil war broke out in her country in 2015, she had already accepted Christ. A Christian woman she met at university
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WIth the cease fire in Syria barely holidng, a senior UN official working there has warned of a “looming humanitarian catastrophe” in four besieged towns, and called on all players in the conflict to allow safe passage for life-saving aid to
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Sister Gracy Rodrigues, an Indian nun with the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity (the Canossians), is involved in rescuing child victims of trafficking and active with the Asian Movement of Women Religious Against Human Trafficking (AMRAT), a network of
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On February 6th, the Pakistani National Assembly passed a law amending some criminal laws. For the first time, sectarianism, mass lynching and forced conversions will be punished, and the explicit aim of the legislation is to improve the conditions of
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In war-ravaged Syria, isolation is more harmful than bullets or bombs. Men are dying or fleeing at an astonishing rate, and the women left behind are having to learn to live in a new world. They are now both caretakers
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Christians and non-Sunni Muslims from Mosul, northern Iraq, waiting to return after their city’s liberation from Islamic State is completed, may have many years to wait, and their chances of doing so depend on the actions of the Iraqi Government,
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