Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created, said the Vatican’s annual message to Muslims for the end of Ramadan.
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Pope Francis will not visit South Sudan in 2017
With the civil war worsening and famine spreading, Pope Francis already in March had expressed doubts about the possibility of making the trip.
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‘Capitalism gives a moral cloak to inequality,’ Pope Francis says at Italian steel plant
Condemning an economy that encourages speculation more than entrepreneurship, warning priests and religious that they share responsibility for the vocations crisis and telling young people they are right to be puzzled by nations that close their doors to people fleeing persecution, Pope Francis spent a busy day in Genoa. Besides being packed with pastoral appointments, […]
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How Pope Francis is healing the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship
While some Pentecostals in some parts of the world, especially in Latin America, have a reputation for trying to convince Catholics to leave the church, the reality of the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship is much more varied.
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Trudeau asks Pope Francis to apologize for church’s harm of Canada’s indigenous people
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he asked Pope Francis to help Canadians “move forward on a real reconciliation” with the country’s indigenous people.
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Pope Francis takes blessings door to door
“It was a great surprise today when, instead of the pastor, the one ringing the door bells was Pope Francis.”
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What’s going on with Medjugorje? An interview with a priest assigned to investigate it.
“The commission held as credible the first apparitions,” he said. “Afterward, things became a little more complicated.”
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Medjugorje commission reportedly thought first seven Marian visions were real
The commission established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to recognize as supernatural the first seven appearances of Mary in 1981.
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Imprisoned priest in Yemen pleads for help in new video
Father Uzhunnalil was kidnapped in Aden on March 4, 2016, in an attack in which four Missionaries of Charity and at least 12 others were killed at a home for the aged.
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Pope Francis supports Canadian bishops in fight against euthanasia
Ontario bishops spoke particularly about concerns that proposed Ontario laws and policies surrounding euthanasia currently offer no real guarantees of the freedom of doctors and nurses to conscientiously object to actively helping a person die.