Religiously motivated hate crimes against Christians in Europe jumped by 44 percent in just one year, reveals a sobering report by a prominent Christian persecution monitoring group.
The confessionals where generations of Belgians admitted their sins stood stacked in a corner of the Church, having outlived their purpose.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone laments that the United States has done a better job overcoming racism than coming to terms with its long history of anti-Catholicism.
The DHS warned the U.S. is in a “heightened threat environment” in the coming months over the “2024 general election cycle and legislative or judicial decisions pertaining to sociopolitical issues.”
Rwandan male gets four years for causing $40 million damage to Nantes Cathedral, will face trial over the murder of a Catholic priest next.
Vienna police have alerted of a possible “Islamist-motivated attack” on churches, citing information received by the country’s intelligence services.
Seven people were reportedly shot dead in what is being described as a “bloodbath” in a church in Hamburg, Germany on Thursday evening.
Police in Paris are searching for an “African type” man accused of vandalising and desecrating a Roman Catholic church in central Paris, who they say has a prior history of church attacks.
Yasin Kanjaa, a radical Muslim accused of murdering one and injuring several others after attacks in two churches in Spain, has claimed he sees “devils” as authorities look into the state of his mental health.
Two churches in the city of Paris have been subjected to arson attacks over several days as police have yet to arrest any suspects.
A French church in the commune of Champagne-au-Mont-d’Or in the suburbs of Lyon was vandalised this week, with paintings and statues smashed.
A church Finland caught fire in the middle of a Christmas service, local police believe the incident was a deliberate act of arson.
Two churches in the cities of Bordeaux and Paris were attacked, with the latter seeing the vandals write far-left slogans on the doors.
Attacks on Christian churches have nearly tripled in the last four years, according to a 84-page report released by FRC in December.
Arson is suspected by investigators after a fire broke out at the cathedral of Saint-Pol-de-Léon on Thursday evening in what could be just the latest arson attack on a Roman Catholic church in France. The fire is believed to have broken
The wave of demonstrations saw protesters going far beyond simply donning “Handmaid’s Tale” bonnets and gathering around the Supreme Court. There have been dozens of acts of violence, destruction, and harassment aimed at intimidating anti-abortion Christians and conservatives.
A French Catholic priest was held at gunpoint and robbed over the weekend while another priest was performing a baptism ceremony.
A Muslim male interrupted mass in a French church in the suburbs of Paris over the weekend, attacking a parishioner and screaming.
An illegal immigrant broke into a church in Neuchâtel, causing tens of thousands of Swiss francs in damage to the church’s organ.
While French voters decide the future of their country at the ballot box, one priest is recovering after being attacked with a knife while performing a Sunday mass.
French bishops are not expected to direct worshippers on how to vote in the French presidential elections as more and more Roman Catholics have become supporters of populist challenger Marine Le Pen.
A man with known a history of placing suspicious parcels has been arrested after allegedly planting an explosive device in a cathedral.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has denounced heightened religious intolerance in France, demonstrated by a recent report on attacks on churches.
A 36-year-old man appeared at the court of Boulogne Sur Mer this week after being accused of setting four churche fires in November.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has called on regional prefects to increase security at local churches over fears of possible terrorist activity during the Christmas holiday season.
A church in the French commune of Saint-Loup-Hors saw two suspicious fires in just four days, with investigators determining if one or both was intentional.
A Coptic Orthodox church in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, was burned to the ground on Monday morning in a suspicious fire and is just the latest suspected church arson in Canada since the start of June.
Police arrested a 27-year-old man on a French terrorism watchlist after he made death threats at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice, the site of a terrorist attack in October.
First Nations Christians spoke of being left “heartbroken” after their historic Anglican church burned to the ground amid the ongoing wave of arson attacks and statue-smashing sweeping Canada.
A far-left member of the Ontario Parliament has expressed “solidarity” with an activist who wrote “burn it all down” after a surge of church fires across Canada.
Ten churches in Alberta were vandalised in a single day as Canada continues to see churches, primarily Roman Catholic, burned to the ground in several provinces over the past month.
A Canadian radio personality called for the burning of churches, as news outlets have reported more Catholic and Anglican churches being burned in parts of the country, primarily on First Nations reserves.
Two Catholic churches on First Nations reservations in British Columbia are the latest churches burned down this month under what police have claimed are suspicious circumstances.
Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris.
Police have launched an investigation after an 11th-century chapel in the French commune of Fabrègues was found with graffiti resembling the Pakistani flag.
At least six bells have been stolen from Greek churches in Distromo in the last two months, with speculation thieves are melting the bells down for scrap metal.
An attacker threw three Molotov cocktails at a church in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Spånga-Tensta.
Two French churches and a town hall in the French department of Seine-et-Marne were vandalised with pink swastikas just days after 67 gravestones were also desecrated in the same manner.
Police have arrested a man who allegedly smashed windows of a historic Catholic church in Leicester, England, while denouncing “parasitic Christians.”
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has called for significantly strengthened security measures to be enacted at churches across the country over the Christmas holiday.
