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Pope and Patriarch likely to focus on areas for collaboration and dialogue.

“The Catholic Church must help to model real dialogue and good will.”

Pope Francis sent condolences to Taiwan following an earthquake that left at least 37 people dead as the island prepared to celebrate Chinese New Year, reported ucanews.com."The Holy Father was saddened to learn of the suffering caused by the deadly earthquake which struck Tainan, leaving many

Turning to God in one-time crime capital Ciudad Juarez.

The Cuba meeting was not an improvisation, Father Lombardi said; it took two years of intense planning and negotiations to schedule.

The two churches split during the Great Schism of 1054 and have remained estranged over a host of issues, including the primacy of the pope.

“It’s clear that when you speak about social rights and workers’ rights in Egypt you are implicitly denouncing the lack of freedom.”

Speaking to about 500 members of the suburban Islamic Society of Baltimore, Obama said he knows that Muslim Americans bear an outsized burden of religious bigotry in the U.S. and are called upon to condemn crimes committed by a few Muslims when the vast majority abhors violence.

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, a top adviser to Pope Francis, has denounced the idea of “therapeutic abortions”—which are carried out because of fetal abnormalities—as a response to birth defects caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus that is setting off ala

King Abdullah II of Jordan has warned that his country is now at a “boiling point” as Syrians, Iraqis and others fleeing violence in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings still seek shelter in the cash-strapped, oil-poor kingdom.