The harassment started during Holy Week, Father Padilla told the news outlet Confidencial, as police and paramilitaries in a pair of pickups followed him on a highway.
Nicaraguan bishop, priest accuse police of harassment
Newly found Maryland site reveals clues about Catholic colonists
While English colonists who arrived in the New World were looking for greater opportunities, many of the Catholic colonists who arrived in Maryland also were looking to escape religious persecution.
Good or bad nations do not exist since wickedness is everywhere, pope says
Today wickedness has pervaded everyone and there are good and bad people in every country.
Region hosting Olympic skiing has history of Catholic persecution
From 1990 to 2011, at least a dozen clergy, including bishops and hundreds of local Catholics, were arrested, tortured and jailed in Chahar.
Religious persecution an ‘insane’ act, pope says
In a video message released by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, the pope dedicated his prayer intention for January to people who suffer from religious discrimination and persecution.
USCCB novena prays for religious liberty ahead of Christ the King feast
The U.S. bishops have urged Catholics to pray a novena for religious liberty in the nine days leading up to the feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday of Ordinary Time, which this year is Nov. 21.
Fears rise over China’s growing crackdown on Christian religious leaders
Fears are rising over China’s looming rising crackdown on Catholic and Protestant church leader that authorities deem illegal.
Gunmen in South Sudan wound bishop-elect weeks before his installation
Unidentified gunmen broke into the home of the bishop-designate of Rumbek, South Sudan, shot him in both legs and fled, according to church news reports.