The new report by Aid to the Church in Need is clear: in more than half of the countries analysed, the situation has not improved. Quite the contrary. From sub-Saharan Africa to Asia, right through to Nicaragua, Christians are being targeted

In the dramatic solitude of the secularised West, we have deluded ourselves into thinking we can do without it. But the finiteness of life always raises the question of meaning, from which it is impossible to escape. A conversation with Cardinal Robert Sarah

The Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Homs, Monsignor Jacques Mourad: “We thought we had finally achieved freedom. Instead, we have had to start fighting for it all over again.” The Christian population is at an all-time low: down from two million to three hundred thousand