Category Archives: Middle East

A Muslim MP in Egypt has submitted the first request to build a new church under a controversial law passed last week by the country’s parliament. The law aimed at liberalising church building and renovation was hotly debated and received Church support only at the last minute amid fears it conceded too much to local

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development will merge Vatican departments responsible for justice and peace, migration, charity and health Pope Francis has created a new Vatican department, The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican has announced. The dicastery will merge four existing Vatican departments; justice and peace, migration, charity and health. In

South Sudanese troops launched the brutal attack in mid-July in a Juba hotel While most expatriate aidworkers left South Sudan after a brutal attack on foreigners in the capital, a group of Catholic missionaries have chosen to stay. “We stayed because we are committed to the ordinary people who are suffering so much,” La

Patriarch Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church has urged Western governments to tighten border controls to curb movement of terrorists The head of the Syrian Orthodox church has said he fears Christianity is in danger of being wiped out in large parts of the Middle East. Patriarch Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church made

The Vatican recently rolled out a new sex education course designed to help parents and educators talk to teens about sex and counter messages on social media. The course, published by the Vatican Council for the