Eighty percent of all acts of religious persecution around the world today are being committed against Christians – Archbishop Eamon Martin.

Findings of ACN report on Religious Freedom in 2018 that “religious freedom is slipping down the human rights priority rankings, being eclipsed by issues of gender, sexuality and race”, are troubling.

“It is shocking to think that in 2017 thousands of Christians are still being persecuted, displaced or expelled, tortured, discriminated and murdered simply because they are Christian,” says Eamon Martin.

Irish young people travelling overland to WYD - already en route.