Carmelite Sisters remain on in Aleppo to help families facing daily bombardment even though their convent is at the centre of ongoing conflict.

Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo of the Syrian city of Aleppo to speak at one of Rome's most famed tourist attractions about the plight of Christians.

Irish government urged to formally recognise genocide as criteria under the UN Convention have been met in Syria and Iraq: Aid to the Church in Need.

Pope appeals to Pakistan's civil authorities and social groupings to restore security and peace especially to the most vulnerable religious minorities.

“The underlying religious dimension of the attacks was shown by the targeting of Christian settlements and desecration of churches": ACN.

“There is a whole world out there and I think it is very important that we don’t become holy huddles with our own people and our own groups."

Aid to the Church in Need to publish ‘Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2013-15’.

“At this very moment, bombs are raining down on the residential neighbourhoods of the city. There may be as many as 60 dead and 300 wounded."

"If the West helps moderates in Syria in a direct way, it is helping ISIS in an indirect way.

"Must we forget that Saul was converted on the road to Damascus? Wasn't he baptized, confirmed and ordained a priest and sent on his great mission in the world by the Church of Syria that had its beginnings in Damascus?"

Charity provided eight schools in Dohuk and Erbil in Kurdish northern Iraq to where 120,000 Christians fled last summer after attacks by so-called Islamic State.

“We priests are fully aware of the risks we run, but we cannot do otherwise than remain alongside the Syrian people, both Christians and Muslims.”

Online petition calls for the release of mother-of-five who was condemned to death in Pakistan in 2010 after she was convicted of blasphemy.

Some 11.4 million people forced from their homes by the conflict which has resulted in more than 220,000 deaths.

500,000 people without health care following closure of 150-bed facility run by St John of God in Lunsar.

Western military intervention is the only viable option in the fight against Nigerian militants, who are now allied to Islamic State.

New report reveals worrying concerns for people of faith in 116 of the world’s 196 countries.

Patriarch calls for protection zone for Christians in northern Iraq under UN mandate and intervention to enable those displaced by IS to go home.

Donations received by Aid to the Church in Need are being distributed directly to parishes in Iraq and Syria.

Faithful urged to walk to Mass on Sunday 31 August as a gesture of solidarity with persecuted Christians.

Bishop Shomali makes urgent appeal for medical treatments and fuel for generators that supply hospitals.

Islamist militants attack four churches and a monastery in Iraq's second city as violence forces 500,000 to leave region.

"They are just innocent girls and every human being feels bad about this. Life is sacred."

Ten Christian places of worship targeted in crackdown in Zhejiang province.

Warning that West's "indifference" to plight of Christians is compounding the crisis.

The danger that one of our neighbours will provoke a civil war has not blown over: Archbishop Shevchuk.

"People are on the edge of starvation. This conflict has been devastating and very inhuman" - Mgr Roko Taban Mousa.

The story of a Polish priest who sacrificed his life to save another man in Auschwitz.