Middle East - Africa News
Pope warns Gaza conflict could spread in Middle East
Pope Benedict XVI is warning violence could spread through the region, after Israel continued bombing Gaza and a suicide bomb... Read more
Benin's president thinks Pope is right about hope in Africa
Just one year after Pope Benedict XVI visited the African country of Benin, its president believes that it can live... Read more
Court dismisses blasphemy case against Christian teen
The Islamabad High Court has dismissed all charges leveled against a disabled Christian girl accused of violating Pakistan’s blasphemy law. Read more
Jerusalem bishop laments new Israeli-Palestinian violence
Amid renewed military action between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a bishop from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem is lamenting... Read more
Nigerian Catholics respond to attack with prayer and fasting
After his parish in southern Nigeria was desecrated on Nov. 4, Monsignor Obiora F. Ike called on his parishioners to... Read more
Middle East to host Catholic youth conference
At least 1,500 Catholic youth from across the Middle East will gather at Abu Dhabi’s St. Joseph’s Cathedral for Arabia’s... Read more
Bishops' delegation says international support critical for Syrian refugees
A delegation from the U.S. bishops’ conference that recently visited the Middle East believes that the Syrian refugee crisis is... Read more
After Catholic church bombing, Nigerians call for security
Following the deadly suicide bombing on a Catholic Church in north Nigeria, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of... Read more
Bishops call attack on Nigerian parish 'barbarous'
A suicide bombing of a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Oct. 28 has been denounced as cowardly by Archbishop... Read more
Catholic bishop supports girl shot by Taliban
A Catholic bishop in Pakistan has voiced “sympathy and solidarity” towards Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Muslim activist critically injured by... Read more
Moroccan navy prevents Dutch abortion ship from entering waters
Moroccan officials ordered a Dutch ship that provides abortions to leave its territorial waters after the vessel attempted to approach... Read more
Anti-Christian graffiti hits Franciscan convent in Jerusalem
Vandals sprayed graffiti insulting to Jesus on the walls of a Franciscan convent on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, echoing a... Read more
US bishops offer condolences, support after Nigeria church bombing
Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offered their support to the Church in Nigeria after a suicide car... Read more
Pope: Lebanon can be beacon of religious co-existence
At his departure from Lebanon, Pope Benedict XVI said the religious co-existence the people of Lebanon showed during his three-day... Read more
In Lebanon, Pope calls for end to Syria conflict
Pope Benedict XVI has placed the Middle East under the “maternal protection” of Our Lady and has asked her to... Read more
Pope asks Christians to be servants of peace
Pope Benedict XVI told an open-air Mass in the Lebanese capital of Beirut that the Christians of the Middle East... Read more
Pope calls Lebanese youth to 'revolution of love'
Pope Benedict XVI has challenged young Christians and Muslims in the Middle East to reject the path of violence and... Read more
Pope encourages culture of peace in Lebanon
In a speech to Lebanese leaders on Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI called for the strengthening of a “culture of peace”... Read more
Benedict XVI: fundamentalism a 'falsification' of religion
Pope Benedict described fundamentalism as “a falsification of religion,” which goes against its true purpose as “an invitation to share... Read more
Pope signs momentous document on Church in the Middle East
Pope Benedict XVI has signed his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Church in the Middle East, “Ecclesia in Medio Oriente,”... Read more
