Dispatches

The South African paralympian will return to prison after an appeals court found him guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

What Einstein’s breakthrough can teach Christians about the value of a free and foolish heart

Someone is shot in Chicago on the average of every three hours. There have been more than 400 shooting deaths in the city so far this year, up 18 percent already from last year.

On the flight from Bangui to Rome, the pope addressed questions on COP21, Vatileaks, Islam

Many images stick in my mind of the public outrage expressed since Chicago police released video of one if its officers pumping 16 shots into an African American teen There is the one of multiracial protestors marching along Chicago rsquo s showcase shopping district the Magnificent Mile linking a

Pope Francis put peace and reconciliation in the CAR at the center of international attention by his visit here, during which he sought to create the conditions for this by, among other things, opening the Jubilee Year of Mercy in Bangui’s cathedral.

Pope Francis was given a tremendous welcome by tens of thousands of Central Africans when he arrived in this conflict-torn land.

On his last day in Uganda, he repeatedly urged Christians here to draw inspiration from their martyrs.

The pope noted that “the nation has been blessed in its people: its strong families, its young and its elderly.”

Pope Francis first hit out hard against “the dreadful injustice of urban exclusion” when he visited the one of the city’s many slums and, an hour later at a rally with young people, he slammed corruption and tribalism.