ZURICH — The number scrawled across the wall in a Libyan detention center connects to a cellphone more than 1,000 miles away in Europe — with a Catholic priest at the end of the line. Father Abba ...

Father Mussie Zerai was a theology student in Rome when he first got a call from a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. He thought it was a joke: "It was three o'clock in the night. I think, ...

Mussie Zerai was once a refugee. Now the 40-year-old Roman Catholic priest from Eritrea runs a center that receives calls from distressed migrants who have fled their countries in hopes of a better ...

A surge of migrant deaths in deadly voyages across the Mediterranean Sea has become a modern-day refugee crisis. But the Rev. Mussie Zerai, a 40-year-old Roman Catholic priest from tiny Eritrea, north ...

His intervention was essential to saving the lives of thousands of refugees. He is their guardian angel. The barges that are left adrift in the Mediterranean can expect two things: to either trust ...

SWITZERLAND. Basel. 2014. St. Joseph's Church. Father Zerai in the sacristy, before celebrating Gheez-Rite mass. SWITZERLAND. Basel. 2014. St. Joseph's Church. Father Zerai in the sacristy, before ...

This year, more than 4,650 people fleeing from Africa to Europe have perished on the Mediterranean Sea, according to the International Organization for Migration — about 1,000 more than last year. The ...

There are four officially recognized religious groups in Eritrea: the Eritrean Orthodox Church, Sunni Islam, the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea. This doesn't mean ...

The BBC reports on the work of Fr. Mussie Zerai in helping African migrants fleeing North Africa: With thousands of migrants from strife-torn North Africa arriving in Italy, the BBC World Service's ...

It's an unlikely setting for a priest who has become the guardian angel of the many boat people trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. Eritrean-born Mussie Zerai was recently posted ...

A little-known priest is giving Pope Francis a run for the Nobel Peace Prize this week - and he has even been given the pontiff's blessing. Father Mussie Zerai, a 40-year-old Catholic priest of ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) A surge of migrant deaths in deadly voyages across the Mediterranean Sea has become a modern-day refugee crisis. But the Rev. Mussie Zerai, a 40-year-old Roman Catholic priest ...