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SEOUL: Catholic Church officials in South Korea have unveiled the remains of four martyrs who sacrificed their lives during ...

Pope Leo XIV formally recognized the martyrdom of 50 French priests, seminarians and laymen who died in Gestapo custody, Nazi concentration camps or because of their imprisonment during World War II.

Vatican City, Jun 20, 2025 / 12:41 pm Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 ...

Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese martyr beatified in Rome on Sunday, June 15, provides a powerful testament to the invaluable witness of the laity and youth, Pope Leo XIV said. In his ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Gertrude Kamara Ntawiha, mother of the newly beatified Congolese martyr Blessed Floribert Bwana Chui, during an audience in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican June 16, 2025.

Relics are placed beneath the altar. (Photo: Courtesy photo) The Martyrs of Gorcum, nineteen in all, were brutally executed during the religious upheaval of the 16th century.

Tucked away in the quiet town of Bocaue lies a little-known historical and spiritual site that links the Philippines to one of Korea’s most revered religious figures: Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, the ...

Beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1999, these 108 martyrs bore witness to Christ under Nazi and Communist persecution Zbigniew Kotyłło, “Capuchin Martyrs of the Concentration Camps,” 2018.

The French Catholic community in Washington worshiped at Epiphany Catholic Church from 1960 until 2013. Since 1979, the Lithuanian Catholic Mission of Washington has gathered there for Mass. When ...