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Bishops: killing is now ‘anodyne act’ in Central African Republic

Displaced people seek shelter at a Catholic church in Carnot, Central African Republic. Half of the population still need help, the country's bishops have said (Photo: PA)
Friday, 4 July 2014

Bishops criticise government for failing to turn ‘new page’ in country’s history

Ukrainian Catholic bishop: Election was ‘fruit of the revolution’

Petro Poroshenko has claimed outright victory in the presidential ballot (PA)
Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomes victory of billionaire confectionary tycoon

Romanian Catholic bishop martyred by Communists beatified tomorrow

A sparrow rests on a barbed wire fence that surrounds prison where the bishop died
Friday, 16 May 2014

Bishop Durcovici was starved to death in 1951

Bishop in Central African Republic rescued on way to execution

A displaced boy holds a child as he sits on a bench on a 40-acre diocesan compound in Bossangoa (CNS)
Thursday, 8 May 2014

Bishop says he and three parish priests narrowly escaped being killed by Islamist rebels

Bishop: Ukrainian Church battling to remain legal in Crimea

Pro-Russia protesters scuffle with the police at the regional government building in Donetsk, Ukraine (CNS)
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Bishop Dzyurakh says situation in Crimea remains “tense and dangerous” for Catholic clergy

Priest: Ukrainian Catholics flee Crimea to escape threats of arrest

Father Milchakovskyi said that he and his family and at least two-thirds of his parishioners have left for Ukrainian-controlled territory on the advice of Archbishop Shevchuk (pictured above) (CNS)
Tuesday, 25 March 2014

‘The new government here is portraying us all as nationalists and extremists,’ said Father Milchakovskyi

Ukrainian Catholics fear ‘new oppression’ after Russian takeover

Uniformed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, walk in formation near a Ukrainian military base in Crimea (CNS)
Thursday, 13 March 2014

Father Mykhailo Milchakovskyi described the atmosphere as tense

Catholic leaders praise missionaries in Central African Republic

A French soldier patrols near a burning house at a village in Bossangoa, Central African Republic (CNS)
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Priests and nuns have remained in the country during the current conflict, despite offers of evacuation.

Clergy have vital role to play in helping stamp out the fires of Kiev

Orthodox priests pray as they stand between pro-European Union activists and police lines in central Kiev last week (AP)
Thursday, 30 January 2014

Catholic and Orthodox leaders can help bring the crisis in Ukraine to a peaceful end

Cardinal defends publication of Blessed John Paul II’s private notebooks

Blessed John Paul II's notebooks are set to be published on February 5
Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Former personal secretary to the late Pontiff says that ‘it would be a crime to destroy’ the documents