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Christian aid organisations are now leading emergency Ebola response across the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation declared a "public health emergency of international concern" on 17 May after 246 suspected cases and 80 confirmed deaths.
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Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, has been hailed in global media as a generational document on the human cost of artificial intelligence. The text demands robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users, and political systems that do not abdicate their...
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Ghazal Marzban, an Iranian Islamic law graduate and Catholic convert, has been sentenced to 9 years and 8 months in prison by an Iranian Revolutionary Court on 25 May 2026. Judge Iman Afshari ruled she was guilty of propaganda against the state and gathering and collusion against national...
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Lionsgate has just made official what Christian audiences have been waiting on for two decades. The Resurrection of the Christ, Mel Gibson's two part sequel to The Passion of the Christ, will hit theatres on 26 March 2027 (Good Friday) and 6 May 2027 (Ascension Day). First look images...
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On 20 May 2026, during one of the final episodes of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert, a self professed Catholic, sat across from fellow Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan and described his view of the afterlife as "some continuance of some kind. But it's like a dispersion of the self."...
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Pope Leo XIV has done something no pope in modern memory has ever done. On 25 May 2026, he personally presented his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), "on the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence," and seated alongside the...
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has issued a historic message to the Cuban people in a speech broadcast on 20 May 2026, Cuba's Independence Day. The administration pledged $100 million in food and medicine to be distributed through religious organisations, deliberately bypassing the...
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The World Health Organization has declared the latest Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern. As of 17 May 2026, the outbreak has produced 246 suspected cases and 80 confirmed deaths. Christian medical missions are...
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ADF International has launched a court case at the East African Court of Justice on behalf of Banyamulenge Christian communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The case, filed on 16 May 2026, demands accountability for the 18 January 2026 attack on Uvira, during which Congolese...
Middle East
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in history, stood before tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square last month and declared that Jesus "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war." He called for an end to the conflict in Iran and warned against the weaponization of God's name...
Middle East
On April 19, 2026, a photograph surfaced on social media showing an Israeli Defense Forces soldier striking a statue of Jesus Christ with the blunt side of an axe in the Christian village of Debel in southern Lebanon. A second soldier photographed the act.
US
Pope Leo XIV made headlines last month when he declared before thousands at St. Peter's Basilica that Jesus "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war." The statement, delivered during a prayer vigil for peace on April 11, came as the United States and Iran engaged in face to...