The Greek Government has promised more action on human rights issues as attacks on religious sites in the country recorded an alarming rise.
A French archbishop has expressed his “sadness” at the secularist disruption of a live Nativity in Toulouse, leading to the event’s cancellation.
Cassock wearing in young priests is a “sign of fragility”, the Archbishop of Paris has said.
The more than a thousand attacks on French churches in the past year are not evidence of “Catholicphobia” in the country, a sociologist has insisted.
A group of vandals has desecrated a north Dublin convent church and insulted the elderly nuns in residence there.
A French bishop has denounced the “violence, cowardice and stupidity” behind the “desecration” of a parish church in Tonnay-Charente, in the country’s central-west.
An Irish priest has warned Catholics should expect more attacks on churches in the midst of a wave of vandalism against sacred sites in the country.
Polish Bishops’ President Stanislaw Gadecki has expressed his “great sadness” over a physical attack on a priest at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist in the northwestern city of Szczecin.
Attacks on churches in France have quadrupled between 2008 and 2019. What best explains the statistics?