Father Frans van der Lugt, a 75-year-old Jesuit priest from Belgium, had spent most of his life ministering to Christians and Muslims alike in Syria. On April 7, he was brutally beaten and shot to ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since becoming Pope Francis in March 2013, is focusing on martyrdom in the Roman Catholic Church. Two months into his pontificate, Francis canonized the 813 martyrs of Otranto, ...

Soon-to-be beatified priests, along with fellow martyred Lutheran pastor, were ‘shining lights on our common ecumenical path.’ MARTYRS. Three Catholic priests and a Lutheran pastor from the northern ...

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s innovative Martyrs of Communism project is a revival of the classically Catholic way of preaching the Gospel message. A marker commemorating the Ukrainian martyrs of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The birth of Stanley ...

More than 5,000 people visited a photo exhibition at the Jeonju Shrine of South Korea that showcased portraits of 124 early Catholic martyrs beatified by Pope Francis in 2014. The Council of Lay ...

Christians are under persecution worldwide and face discrimination in the West that could turn in to more violent opposition, according to the author of a new book on martyrdom. "For 2000 years, ...

A Catholic museum in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, has launched a year-long exhibition on the persecution and martyrdom of Catholics in the 19 th century and to showcase mementos kept by them. The ...

Pope Francis has set up a special commission tasked with identifying those he calls the "new martyrs" of the 21st century — Christians who have been slain in some cases simply for attending Mass or ...

The birth of Stanley Francis Rother was by all accounts ordinary, aside from the weather. The Catholic farm boy came into the world during an Oklahoma dust storm. But in life – and in death – he was ...