TheCatholic Church in Yemen is part of the worldwideCatholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of thePope inRome.
Christians as a group make up 0.06% ofYemen’s population. Most of these are Orthodox Christians.
In 2020, there were four hundred Catholics in the country, which included one priest and eight nuns.[1] There are also approximately 2,500 Catholics who are temporary foreign workers or refugees.[2][3]
The Catholic Church in Yemen forms part of theVicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia.[4]
Three nuns who were members of theMissionaries of Charity were killed inHodeida 1998.[5] In the same year, Yemen and theVatican established diplomatic relations.[4] On 4 March 2016, terrorists of uncertain affiliationattacked a Catholic home for the elderly in Aden, killing sixteen people including four missionary sisters of the Missionaries of Charity and some local Muslim workers.
It is reported that at Christians and other religious minorities are often discriminated against when attempting to access humanitarian aid.[6]
There are four Catholic parishes in Yemen:
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