John Newton and Oliver Maksan, Aid to the Church in Need
Syria: Let kidnapped nuns go free
A passionate appeal for the release of 12 religious sisters kidnapped in Syria has been made by a bishop from a country torn apart by violence and persecution.
Egypt: Police 'protected' cathedral attackers
Police protected Islamist extremists who attacked a funeral service at St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, according to a source close to Egypt's Catholic bishops.