“The people count on us. When there is violence, they immediately ask where is the Church? Where are the leaders?" Sister Beta Almendra told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
It was a low-key, private pilgrimage. On the first Sunday of August Father Pierluigi Maccalli visited the shrine of Fatima in Portugal.
Young boys and girls have been forced to become child fighters and "child brides."
Three years of war can be summed up in one brutal statistic: more than 2,000 dead and more than 600,000 people displaced.
Colombian Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoty, who was kidnapped four years ago on by jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda.
So far the authorities have not given any explanation as to what has happened to these two religious and the more than 60 individuals who were present in their convent at the time of the attack.
Father Apollinaire Cibaka Cikongo, a Congolese priest, reflects on the "dynamic of violence caused by the Western conquest of Africa."
Aid to the Church in Need talks to Paulo Rangel, a member of the European Parliament, about the violence that has left hundreds dead and 200,000 homeless.
Religious sister living in Syria talks about the country’s tragic conditions.
