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‘Heartbroken’ Archbishop Naumann urges prayers for Kansas priest fatally shot in rectory

Archbishop Naumann said he was ‘heartbroken to share the tragic news’ that Fr. Raj ‘Arul’ Carasala of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Seneca was murdered on Thursday by an Oklahoma man.

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Matt Lamb

• Apr 4, 2025Apr 7, 2025

2,400+ hate crimes were committed against European Christians in 2023: report

At least 2,444 hate crimes targeting Christians were recorded in 35 European countries in 2023 while anti-Christian attacks are increasing in Latin America, according to reports.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Apr 4, 2025Apr 7, 2025

Catholic husband murdered by Japanese in WWII for defending marriage to be declared saint

Blessed Peter To Rot, a husband and catechist from Papua New Guinea, was martyred by the Japanese in the Second World War for opposing polygamy and holding religious gatherings.

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Raymond Wolfe

• Apr 2, 2025Apr 3, 2025

This Catholic samurai martyr is a model for resisting government persecution

Blessed Takayama Ukon, a Catholic samurai, renounced all worldly riches and honor instead of denying his faith and influenced the conversion of tens of thousands of Japanese Catholics. His intercession will be helpful for those facing anti-Christian persecution.

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Robert Jenkins

• Feb 21, 2025Mar 4, 2025

Catholic priest sentenced to 11 years in Belarus prison camp for ‘high treason’

Fr. Henryk Okołotowicz's sentencing on charges of 'high treason' has been described as the first such political imprisonment since the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union. Okołotowicz has maintained his innocence.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Jan 2, 2025Jan 3, 2025

Bishop Paprocki defends St. Michael prayer after Mass: ‘Disrupts only the devil, not the liturgy’

Bishop Thomas Paprocki rebutted critics of praying the St. Michael Prayer after Mass as it grows in popularity in the United States, saying it’s ‘simply wrong’ to claim that the prayer is ‘out of place at the end of Catholic Mass.’

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Robert Jenkins

• Oct 31, 2024Oct 31, 2024

JD Vance writes op-ed blasting Kamala Harris’ blatant ‘anti-Catholic bias’

JD Vance slammed Kamala Harris for her ‘consistent pattern’ of attacking Catholics, including by suggesting that a judicial nominee should be disqualified because of his Catholic faith and by backing legislation that would force Catholic hospitals to commit abortions and transgender surgeries.

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Stephen Kokx

• Oct 26, 2024Oct 29, 2024

Bishop Schneider tells Candace Owens: The Catholic Church was the ‘greatest enemy’ of Soviet Communists

The ‘greatest enemy’ of the Soviet Communists ‘was not so much the so-called Western World,’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider said, but the Catholic Church, and ‘especially the Vatican’ because the popes ‘boldly resisted communism’ and condemned it.

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Emily Mangiaracina

• Oct 11, 2024Oct 11, 2024

Pope Francis says he is ‘pleased’ with Vatican-China deal, thinks ‘the results are good’

‘I’m happy with how things are going,’ Pope Francis said about the secret Vatican-China deal, despite increased persecution of Catholics under the agreement and China ‘appointing’ bishops without Francis’ approval.

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Emily Mangiaracina

• Sep 18, 2024Sep 19, 2024

Trump slams Kamala Harris, Democrats for anti-Catholic bigotry: ‘They’re really after the Catholics’

President Donald Trump said Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party are ‘militantly hostile toward Americans of faith,’ particularly Catholics. ‘They’re after the Catholics, almost as much as they’re after me,’ Trump said.

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Matt Lamb

• Jul 29, 2024Jul 30, 2024

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Articles tagged anti-Catholic persecution

‘Heartbroken’ Archbishop Naumann urges prayers for Kansas priest fatally shot in rectory

2,400+ hate crimes were committed against European Christians in 2023: report

Catholic husband murdered by Japanese in WWII for defending marriage to be declared saint

This Catholic samurai martyr is a model for resisting government persecution

Catholic priest sentenced to 11 years in Belarus prison camp for ‘high treason’

Bishop Paprocki defends St. Michael prayer after Mass: ‘Disrupts only the devil, not the liturgy’

JD Vance writes op-ed blasting Kamala Harris’ blatant ‘anti-Catholic bias’

Bishop Schneider tells Candace Owens: The Catholic Church was the ‘greatest enemy’ of Soviet Communists

Pope Francis says he is ‘pleased’ with Vatican-China deal, thinks ‘the results are good’

Trump slams Kamala Harris, Democrats for anti-Catholic bigotry: ‘They’re really after the Catholics’