Divine Mercy augments Easter hope

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 04/12/2015 - 18:42

“Christ, my hope, is arisen,” the Church proclaims on Easter Sunday.

This hope is augmented on Divine Mercy Sunday. Celebrated on April 12 this year, the Second Sunday of Easter is when the Church proclaims “the One who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ.”

This Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis will officially proclaim a “Jubilee Year of Mercy,” an extraordinary holy year to begin on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

The family of Asia Bibi to meet Pope Francis

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 04/12/2015 - 16:04

Husband Ashiq and their daughter on European campaign, visiting Rome, Madrid, Paris and Berlin. Asia asks the Pope for a special blessing.

“When you kiss the hand of the Pope, do it also for me. That will be my kiss. And ask him to bless us.” With these words, Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian mother condemned to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, approved the journey that her husband Ashiq Masih and one of their daughters will embark upon next week towards Europe, in the hopes of raising support to overturn the sentence.

From Na'our to the Holy See... a story of a painting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 04/12/2015 - 00:34

The young Iraqi man, who preferred to remain anonymous, confined himself in a classroom in the township of Na'our for long hours on daily bases and for several weeks to depict on a special piece of canvas the exodus trip or rather the forced displacement that was triggered by the mentality of labeling others as infidels and was revealed by its heinous practices in Iraq.

''Our Christian Choice''

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/11/2015 - 17:48

A horrific massacre of 147 students and others took place last week at Garissa University College in Kenya. Christians were the main target of Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaida-affiliated Somali terrorist group.

In February 2015, 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian migrant workers were beheaded by an ISIL-affiliated militia group on the beach along the southern Mediterranean coast of Libya. Their fault: being “people of the cross.”

What do we expect from inter-religious dialogue?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/10/2015 - 00:53

It is logical to ask: Is there still room for what has been termed for decades as “inter-religious dialogue” at a time when the world is torn apart by wars and reverberating forms of violence that have resulted in variant bloody ferocities, deaths and victims? As some of these ferocities are committed in the name of religion, we thus inquire, “What has been left for the religion to say? What is the position of religion vis-à-vis what is taking place? What are the reasons behind maintaining inter-religious dialogue? Where will this course lead to?

Pope remembers the “massacres” of Armenians and recalls the systematic annihilation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/09/2015 - 21:19

Ahead of Sunday’s Mass at Saint Peter’s in commemoration of the centenary of the genocide, the Pope meets with members of the Armenian Catholic Church on April 9, 2015: reconciliation between nations that still have not come to a reasonable consensus on the reading of those events.

"Iraq's and Syria's Christians pray for a new resurrection"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/04/2015 - 16:46

For Christians all over the world, Easter is a season of hope; Christ triumphant on Easter morning banishes the darkness of sin and death.
Here in Iraq, we have particular reason to rejoice in Christ's victory over the powers of evil. It is a victory we so sorely need in a land where we are currently walking the Way of the Cross, desperately searching for signs of the Resurrection