In an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari, founder of Italian national newspaper La Repubblica, the Pope says that in order "to achieve this we need to knock down walls and build bridges that can lessen inequality and boost freedom and rights”. Today there are “Christian martyrs in almost every corner of the world”.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has congratulated the new president-elect, expressing his respect for the US democratic process that led to his election and the hope that Trump will work in service of his country as well as for the well-being and peace of the world.
Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.
The former television entertainer’s campaign has been a roller coaster of triumphs and pitfalls, but his love for hyperbole has never wavered.
With him in the White House, Mr Trump has said, his supporters are going to "win so big" they will soon be "sick of winning".
When it comes to mapping out the details of a Trump presidency, the Republican candidate has been no less extravagant.
Following is a reportage from a structure run the Latin Vicariate in Jordan, that hosts Christian refugee:
Donald Trump, the next president of the United States of America – I guess those are words few of us ever expected to hear, along with ‘Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition’ and ‘Leicester City, Premier League Champions’,
I went to bed early assuming that Clinton had it in the bag, and that overall this was probably the lesser of two evils. She’s awful, but I broadly agreed with PJ O’Rourke on this one.
Having had a narrow escape from death, Raban Boutros Kassis, renews his appeal for the rescue of the martyr city, where there are 35,000 Christians remaining. He also remembers kidnapped priests.
The director of the Vatican Press Office issued a statement on Monday, November 7, saying the Holy See hopes that reports of episcopal ordinations conferred without Papal Mandate are unfounded and recalling that “it is not licit to proceed with any episcopal ordination without the necessary Papal Mandate, even by appealing to particular personal beliefs”.
The former general’s presidential election was made possible by the cross-party convergence of previously opposing forces. An institutional stalemate that lasted two- and-a-half years has ended. And the country of cedars has proved its interdenominational nature and vocation despite it all, showing the rest of the Middle East that a different future is possible, one that is not based on sectarian division.
At the Angelus,on Sunday November 6, the Pope appealed for justice not to be administered purely in the form of punishment. Addressing political leaders, he said: “living conditions in prisons need to improve”. He also praised the climate agreement on the “common home”
The young apostolic prefect, Fr. Mario León Dorado, talks to Vatican Insider about his years of working in an area marked by tensions and struggles
