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Scripture tells us that when faced with trials, faithful Jews remembered their story and held on to their identity. Faithful Catholics know their story and retain their identity. Faithless Catholics forget their identity and attempt to manufacture limp narratives that differ little from absurd contemporary ideologies. Saint Stephen held the feet of those judging him to the fire of history and truth. And for that, he was stoned to death. Who is prepared to stand up to those who defy the law of God and accuse others of blasphemy for refusing to cooperate with deadly ideologies? In the first centuries, Romans targeted Christians who refused to burn as little as a single grain of incense to one of the pagan gods. Devotees of contemporary deities are no less determined than their ancient kin to persecute others who refuse to participate in today's dark rituals and sinister programs. In modern temples, policy is prayer, and procedure is ritual. Anyone who resists following inhumane polic...

In 2025 alone, more than 7,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria, underscoring the intense persecution experienced by Christian communities in the country. Overview of Persecution Nigeria has become one of the most perilous places for Christians, with violence largely fueled by Islamist militant groups like Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen. Over the past 14 years, more than 52,250 Christians have been killed due to religious violence, and the situation has only deteriorated in recent years. In 2025, it was reported that 7,087 Christians lost their lives between January and August, averaging approximately 35 killings per day. https://www.mnnonline.org/news/report-shows-thousands-of-christians-killed-in-nigeria-this-year/ Notable Incidents and Statistics https://globalchristianrelief.org/stories/10-nigerian-martyrs-that-show-us-the-power-of-faith/ Deborah Samuel . One of the most prominent cases of martyrdom is that of Deborah Samuel, a 19-year-old student who was killed by a mob for her C...

Among the three memorial acclamations fixed in Divine Worship: the Missal, the third acclamation - O Saviour of the world - is frequently heard in Ordinariate communities. Arguably, it is the most patrimonial of the acclamations. The third acclamation is likely unfamiliar to most diocesan Catholics who visit Ordinariate communities. It is not included in the Novus Ordo Missae. The third acclamation is a statement of fact. Our redemption is wrought in and through Jesus Christ. Our hope and salvation is made known to us in the Mass. Acknowledging our dependency upon the Lord, we humbly plead with Him to rescue us and sustain us. The third acclamation invites the worshipper into a solemn intimacy of trust in the Lord. O Saviour of the world, who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed us: save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. The crib rests in the shadow of the Cross. This Christmas, when so many of the brethren are suffering at the hands of the many Herods of this w...

Arzoo Raja / Aid To The Church In Need UK photo  The constant threat to public safety caused by the adherents of a particular religious ideology is barely mentioned in the secular media. https://nasarean.org/index.php Abductions of young Christian girls are widespread. Deadly attacks on Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa are frequent, committed not by a mere few lost souls but by a hoard of perpetrators that appears to be multiplying every week ( World Watch List 2020 ). 2983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith. (World Watch List 2020) Given that the abductors, rapists and murderers mentioned in the articles below explicitly and undeniably self declare their associations with a particular religious ideology, e.g., by the declaration of the Takbir, and given reputedly learned courts guided by a particular religious jurisprudence condone such behavior, one could be forgiven a charge of bias ...

We live in an age when ignorance reigns in the hearts of men. Young people are routinely subjected to a diet of revisionist history, and so substantially embrace the biases of their social studies teachers that they, blinded to the similarities between their own fascist tendencies and their ideological brethren, robustly resemble members of the Hitlerjugend or the Bund Deutsche Mädel . Aged agnostics, and not particularly honest ones at that, accord more force to their doubt and often times bizarre near-conspiracy-theory beliefs than surrender those same weird biases to the cleansing perspective of history provided by reliable contemporaries of historical events. Modern armchair historians swat away ancient reports like annoying flies rather than understand that, not being troublesome insects, those same accounts could teach them something about themselves, something about their bigotry, for starters. It might do them well, those armchair historians and fascist youngsters, to ...