John Pontifex

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  Red Wednesday: Shining a light on the UN's failure to protect persecuted Christians

  John Pontifex | Wed 22 Nov 2017 10:35 GMT

  The key impetus behind the initiative has been to challenge the the international community who so far have failed to help persecuted faith communities.

• Help for Syrians as winter bites

  John Pontifex | Thu 24 Jan 2013 13:38 GMT

  People escaping violence and oppression in Syria are to receive urgent help from a leading Catholic charity which is making a series of grants across a region now gripped by a bitter winter.

• Pakistani Christian girl raped and murdered

  John Pontifex | Sat 2 May 2009 8:39 BST

  A nine-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan was reportedly gang-raped before being killed and dumped in a canal – and outrage is growing amid reports that almost a month later nobody has been arrested.