Stanley Rother: $US50 million shrine to honour slain priest, first US Catholic martyr
BOBBY ROSS, JR, writing for Associated Press, reports from Oklahoma City ahead of the official opening of a shrine dedicated to Stanley Rother, a missionary from Oklahoma, who was killed in Guatemala in 1981…
ESSAY: WHY SLAIN MISSIONARY JOHN ALLEN CHAU MIGHT BE A MARTYR
JOHN G STACKHOUSE, Jr, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how American John Allen Chau – killed by North Sentinelese Indigenous people in the remote Andaman Islands – can be viewed as a martyr…
Martyred Anglican archbishop remembered in Uganda this week
An Anglican archbishop believed to have been murdered on the orders of former dictator Idi Amin was remembered in services marking the 40th anniversary of his death in Uganda this week. Archbishop Janani Luwum, at the time archbishop of the Anglican Church of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Boga Zaire, had been a leading voice protesting […]
US priest declared first American martyr by Pope Francis
Catholics walk past a picture of Rev Stanley Rother during a memorial Mass in the small town of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, on 28th July, 2006. Rev Rother was an Oklahoman priest killed on 28th July, 1981 for his work with indigenous poor during Guatemala’s brutal civil war. PICTURE: Reuters/Daniel LeClair RNS An American missionary priest […]