Priest laments destruction of Iraq's oldest Christian monastery
AMMAN, Jordan - Catholic clergy lamented the destruction of Iraq's oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah, and urged the international community to do more to stop such assaults.
English cardinal warns teachers against Islamic State recruitment
MANCHESTER, England - It can take just one month to turn a disenfranchised teenage Catholic student into fanatical Islamic terrorist, an English cardinal planned to warn Catholic teachers.
21 slain Egyptian Copt martyrs had their cross to bear
MONTREAL - Christians have always faced various degrees of persecution through the centuries and should always be prepared to wear “the crown of martyrdom,” a Coptic leader in Montreal told his congregation Feb. 28 during a memorial Mass honouring 21 Egyptians who were beheaded on a beach in Libya by jihadists in mid-February.
Defining just war
New Democrat MP Paul Dewar flushed with surprise when asked whether, as someone raised Catholic, he considers Canada’s involvement in the bombing of ISIL terrorists to qualify as a just war.
Religious leaders try to cope with Islamic State attacks
Religious leaders agree the Islamic State — also known as ISIL or ISIS — must be stopped. Their struggle is how best to do it.