Maaloula, an ancient Christian village in the Syrian mountains, was occupied by jihadists between 2013 and 2014. Now that the jihadists are in power across the country, the population is reliving the nightmare of the massacres and abductions of that time. Father Fadi’s account.
Poland is home to Europe’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary
Work is nearing completion on the statue of Our Lady of Mercy (55.6 metres high, including the plinth) in the village of Konotop. The statue, funded by a Polish millionaire, will be blessed on 15 August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Pakistan: where justice protects those who burn Christians
The murderers of a young Pakistani Christian couple, who were wrongly accused of blasphemy and burned alive in a kiln where they worked in Lahore, have been acquitted. Zarish Neno explains the reality of daily persecution.
Victims ignored: Rupnik’s trial is yet another scandal
Lawyer Sgrò denounces the absence of even the most fundamental information required for a fair trial. The victims have not been heard and are even being denied the right to know the names of the judges. 'How can justice be guaranteed in a trial conducted in total secrecy?' Yet the facts have already been established.
On 26 July 2016, Father Hamel, an 85-year-old priest, had his throat slit at the foot of the altar by two young jihadists in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. Though struck at its very heart, the Old Continent has continued to slumber in the face of mounting threats. Nonetheless, his blood has not been shed in vain for French Catholics, especially the younger generation, who have experienced a renewal of faith in recent years.
The Rupnik scandal: the trial has become a farce
The Vatican Press Office has denied reports that Father Rupnik, who has been accused of sexually abusing at least twenty nuns, has been acquitted. This raises new questions. There is a fear that the network protecting Rupnik is manipulating the trial, about which nothing is known.
- DOSSIER: The Rupnik case
In an article dated 21 July, the official publication of the Dicastery for Communication highlights some of the issues raised by AI with regard to in vitro fertilisation. However, it effectively presents IVF itself as normal. This is a worrying development that goes against the teachings of the Church.
Nuns take state of New York to court over assisted suicide law
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China–Écône: who is forcing regularisation and who is rejecting it?
Why not recognise the bishops of the Fraternity in the same way as those imposed by Beijing? The latter, in effect, invite themselves into communion with Rome, whilst the former exclude themselves from it in order to operate independently. The Chinese government’s appointments remain questionable, but they do not justify the Lefebvrian schism.
Gender and new rights: Sarah denounces the EU’s blackmail of Africa
Invited by the ECR Group in the European Parliament, the cardinal does not mince his words; on the contrary, he exposes the distorted use of such language to convey and impose – even outside Europe – an anthropological vision that runs counter to faith and reason, one that has been artificially created in the ‘corridors of Brussels’. It is a message that also resonates within the Church itself.
- Europe is changing the language to destroy man and the family by Robert Sarah
The charism of Saint Camillus: caring for the sick with a mother’s tenderness
St Camillus de Lellis “called for the sick to be cared for with the same affection and tenderness that a mother has for her only sick child”. To mark the liturgical commemoration of the founder of the Ministers of the Sick, La Bussola interviews the Camillian Ange Désiré Ouedraogo.
Cyprus, on the home front of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict
Cyprus has become a destination for migration and investment for Israelis, particularly since the war began. But it is also a destination for the Lebanese, who were initially fleeing the economic crisis and, since 2023, the war as well.