Pope Francis and Synod on Synodality participants, including non-Catholic delegates, prayed together Friday evening at the site of the first Christian martyrdoms in Rome. The ecumenical prayer vigil ...

November 9, 2025, The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome: When this basilica became the first public ...

May 13—ROME, Italy — Christians have been persecuted throughout history and are still getting kicked around in some parts of the world, but their worst tribulations were under the Roman emperors who ...

Amid the remains of a pagan temple on an island in the Tiber River hangs a red chasuble worn by St. Oscar Romero of San Salvador. Nearby there is a relic of Blessed Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma priest ...

Rome’s catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the seventh edition of Day of the Catacombs. A press release ...

Pope Leo XIV honors hundreds of 21st-century Christian martyrs killed worldwide, highlighting rising persecution by militants, criminal groups, and others, and urging remembrance of their sacrifice.

Jul. 27—Sixty-one of the world's 196 nations actively persecute Christians who, ostracized, imprisoned, beaten, tortured, raped and murdered, stay just as determined to hold onto to their faith as the ...

Washington, D.C. – The third annual March for the Martyrs, held on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., aimed to raise awareness of Christian persecution all over the ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is one of the world’s worst persecutors of Christians, Bishop Michael Sis reports. Ortega is a communist who has been stealing churches and putting priests in prison ...