Jonathan Luxmoore - OSV News

An international charity has urged better protection for Christian refugees in Germany after church officials said many face abuse in Muslim-dominated camps and reception centers."We've heard much about the nasty treatment of Christians, and we're compiling a report to push politicians

“Have these tragic events provoked some genuine awakening, and have we offered perspectives for the society of tomorrow by learning lessons from the past?” asked a Jan. 6 statement from the French bishops’ conference.

“It isn’t a question of opposing someone else’s position or defending particular values for their own sake, but rather of interpreting the unchanging summons of the Gospel in a deeply evangelical way for the present times,” Archbishop Polak explained.

In early November, the U.N. Security Council discussed Burundi’s worsening violence, sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s acceptance of a third term in apparent violation of the constitution.

“The crisis in Syria is now in its fifth year, and the neighboring countries where we’ve been providing assistance are running out of resources,” said Kim Pozniak, communications officer for Catholic Relief Service.

French and British Catholic bishops urged their governments to settle a growing refugee crisis around the port of Calais, where highways have been blocked and migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died attempting illegal crossings of the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel."These men and women c

A Ukrainian bishop said a Russian-backed separatist rebellion has plunged his country into its worst humanitarian crisis since World War II and warned that “millions of refugees” could soon head for Europe to escape starvation.

‘For now, people just hope to survive these truly terrible conditions.’

Group demands inquiry into which French companies had purchased ‘terrorist petrol’

Egypt's Catholic Church has pledged respect for the country's justice authorities after a deposed Islamist president was sentenced to death for alleged complicity in a planned jail break."After long deliberations, the Catholic Church has declared itself against the death penalty in gene