The Augustinian nuns were about to enter a Catholic chapel in Algiers when they were gunned down. Pope Leo previously visited their community in 2009 when he was prior of the Order of St. Augustine.

Algeria’s former president Liamine Zeroual has passed away at the age of 84. He breathed his last on Saturday (28 March), according to a statement from the Algerian Embassy in Dhaka.

The 19 Roman Catholic clergy to be beatified as martyrs in Algeria on Saturday were assassinated between 1994 and 1996 amid a brutal war between Islamic militants and government forces. Mostly French ...