South Africa

The Coptic Orthodox Church reported that three monks were attacked and brutally killed in the Coptic monastery of St. Mark and St. Bishop Samuel the Confessor in Cullinan, South Africa, 18 miles (30 Kilometers) east of the country’s capital, Pretoria on March 11 (Tuesday), 2024.

The second wave of Covid-19 infections is devastating religious communities in South Africa, with at least six elderly nuns dying last week from a religious congregation in one diocese alone.