Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...

Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...

Today in 1942 the Czech priest Joseph Beran was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. He was given number 25844 after the Nazis...

Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...

Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...

Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...

Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...

Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...

The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...

Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...

Today we remember how church bells rung out, bravely, around the country in defiance of the Communist party in Hungary who had severely...

Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...

Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...

Its been described as the most stolen piece of art, the first great oil painting of the Northern Renaissance. A complex multi-panelled...

Today in the year 2000, the Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine...

The achievement of nation building in South Africa has been a beacon and sign of hope for the international community. At a time when...

Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...