During Ignatian Heritage Month, LMU honored the 36th year since the assassination of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador.

The 20th century produced the largest number of martyrs in the history of the Church. What can 21st-century Catholics learn from the martyrs of the last hundred years? On Oct. 28, 498 Spanish men and ...

In the 16th century, a young Franciscan friar from Mexico was blown off course en route back to his homeland from the Philippines, landing on the shores of Japan. San Felipe de Jesus — St. Philip of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pope Leo XIV honored hundreds of Christians killed for their faith in the 21st century during an ecumenical ...

In Jon Sobrino’s essay, “The Latin American Martyrs: Summons and Grace for The Church,” We hear a powerful Cri de Coeur to a church leadership that has grown indifferent to today’s suffering humanity.

On Feb. 6, the Catholic Church honors the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki, a group of native Japanese Catholics and foreign missionaries who suffered death for their faith in the year 1597. During the 16th ...

Every cause has its martyrs. Christians had Jesus. The civil rights movement had Martin Luther King Jr. The American right had those who died at Waco and Ruby Ridge. And every year, Denver Anarchist ...

While the world knows Nagasaki as the site of a U.S. atomic bomb blast, for the Catholic Church it is also the site of one of the fiercest campaigns of anti-Christian persecution. Visiting the city ...

SÃO PAULO – A mural behind the altar showing artistic depictions of Catholic activists who were killed in land disputes in Brazil was covered by the vicar, who claimed that “most churchgoers don’t ...