KANO, Nigeria — Attackers armed with bombs and guns opened fire at church services at a Nigerian university on Sunday, killing around 20 people as worshippers tried to flee, witnesses and officials said.
Explosions and gunfire rocked Bayero University in the northern city of Kano, with witnesses reporting that two church services were targeted as they were being held on campus.  read more »

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, April 17, 2012, Reuters
About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education.
Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul.  read more »

At least 50 people were killed when explosives concealed in two cars went off near a church during Easter Sunday services in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, eye-witnesses said.

Security personnel inspect the mangled remains of bomb-laden car that exploded Sunday, April 8, 2012 along junction Road in northern Nigerian cty of Kaduna, killing at least 50 people, most of them commercial motorcyclists near a church, according to a rescue official.Shehu Sani, the President of Civil Rights Congress based in Kaduna, said two explosions took place at the Assemblies of God's Church near the centre of the city with a large Christian population and known as a major cultural and economic centre in Nigeria's north.  read more »

This week the United Nations Human Rights Council heard the truth on the killing of Christians in Nigeria. The hidden causes and terrifying implications of the militant, Islamic-driven violence were laid open for the perusal of the international community. On Tuesday, Ann Buwalda pled with international community to recognize the pernicious effects of impunity, using the massive escalation in violence  read more »

17 Feb 2012

Kochi: One more person has been arrested in the Newman College professor T J Joseph hand chopping case on Friday. Tamar Ashraf from Thodupuzha, under the directive of the NIA, was arrested by the police on Thursday night. The accused, who was staying in Arab Nations, was arrested after he was made to land in his native place with the help of Interpol.There are indications the persons involved in the hand chopping also funded Mumbai blast  read more »

When India’s bishops meet in Bangalore during the first week in February(1st to 8th Feb), they will discuss “the role of the Church for a better India.” While India has only 18.6 million Catholics--fewer than half the number of those in Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the US, Italy, or France--it now has more seminarians (14,798) and sisters (95,530) than any other nation in the world.  read more »