Notre-Dame Cathedral has received only 13.5 million of the promised billion euros for reconstruction, Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris has said.
Four more Catholics have been killed in Burkina Faso.
The Nigerian government will only take rising insecurity seriously when the president is kidnapped, Cardinal John Onaiyekan has said.
A missionary dubbed “the new St Francis” has gone on hunger strike in protest at Italy’s immigration policies.
A German bishop has reportedly expressed support for a group organising a “church strike”.
