It also matters because these martyrs are leaven there — refusing hatred even at machete’s edge. “Christian faith can turn ordinary men and women into heroes,” Chaput writes.

Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs. The martyrs are drawn from every continent and many Christian ...

No booking is required. Archbishop Bashar Warda, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq, will address the contemporary reality of Christian persecution in the world today at a sermon preached in ...

"We should also give our voices to those whose voices are suppressed by their governments every day, but especially during these holy days." And while the phrase "Christian persecution" may invoke ...