Posts Tagged ‘Christian martyrs’

Pope creates commission to identify modern-day martyrs

Monday, July 10th, 2023

A quarter of a century after John Paul II held an ecumenical celebration during the Great Jubilee of 2000 to honour Christian martyrs, Pope Francis has decided to update the work of his Polish predecessor by compiling a new martyrology of Christians of all denominations. The Vatican announced on July 5 that the 86-year-old pope Read more

Persecution of Christians ‘stunningly vast’

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Seventy million Christian martyrs since the time of Christ . . . at least 100,000 new martyrs for the Christian faith each year in the first decade of this millennium . . . 11 Christians killed every hour of every day for the whole of the past decade. These figures from a conference on the Read more