In a world marked by violence, “the choice of nonviolence as a style of life is increasingly demanded in the exercise of responsibility at every level,” the pope said.
War and Peace
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German churches denounce the arms trade in Yemen war
Government licenses and German arms exports had risen 96 percent in 2015 to a value of $13.6 billion, a priest said.
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Evacuation begins in eastern Aleppo
Syrian TV showed live footage of a long convoy of ambulances and green buses driving out of Aleppo.
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Pope Francis calls for people to hold fast to faith after terrorist attacks in Egypt and Turkey
“We are united in the blood of our martyrs,” Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis calls for a “politics of nonviolence” in annual World Day of Peace message.
“Violence is not the cure for our broken world,” the pope writes.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Genocide, crucifixion and rape: What Christians are facing in the Middle East
“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”
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Read how the Diocese of Honolulu responded to the Pearl Harbor attack, 75 years ago
These are the opening words of the front-page editorial of The Catholic Herald published four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor at 75: ‘We have demonstrated the toughness of our political fiber.’
From the archives.
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Too often the history of El Salvador’s civil war lets the United States off too easily
For some, El Salvador was a shameful episode, in which Washington backed the perpetrators of a death squad bloodbath in a failed attempt to militarily defeat a homegrown leftist insurgency.
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America’s love-hate relationship with the nuclear bomb
This is not a history we Americans like to ponder.