Francis called off today’s catechesis, expressing his solidarity and “the embrace of the whole Church” to all those affected by the earthquake which struck central Italy this morning. The Bishop of Rome expressed his closeness to the municipality of Amatrice and other towns in the local area destroyed by the quake.
Mohammed VI’s speech to fellow-citizens living abroad, the letter Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi wrote to the Pope and the position taken by Croatia’s Grand Mufti are encouraging signs from the Muslim world.
An interview conducted with His Majesty King Abdullah II and published in the daily Ad Dustour on Monday, August 15, reflects delight and restores normalcy. Sometimes altercations take place among members of a family, yet the family remains united with the familial atmosphere serving as a basis that enables the family to continue its constructive and coherent unity.
Religious abuse is condemned, and we do not accept any offence directed at any religious symbol by any side," Director of the Catholic Center for Studies and Media told "Rum" website in reaction to an insult directed by a journalist to the Almighty God through social networking sites in an attempt to abuse religious symbols and sow sedition.
Pope Francis has chosen “a pastor with the smell of the sheep” and “a man of dialogue” who fully embraces his vision of Church as the first prefect of the new Vatican dicastery. He becomes the senior American prelate in the Roman Curia
In a surprise but highly significant move, Pope Francis has named Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas, Texas, to be the first prefect of the newly created Vatican Department (“dicastery” is the official term) for the Laity, the Family and Life. He thus becomes the senior American prelate in the Roman Curia.
The visit takes place after the killing of the priest Hamel by terrorists. The words of the Pope about Islam. The issue resolved over the appointment of the ambassador to the Holy See.
After the killing of Father Jacques Hamel, an 86-year-old French priest who was slain - while celebrating Mass - by two young French terrorists with Maghreb origins last 26 July, in the parish of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in the diocese of Rouen, in Normandy - an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State (Isis) - French President François Hollande will meet with the Pope tomorrow.
For two weeks every afternoon Francis’ Almoner has accompanied groups of homeless people for a swim at Passoscuro and an evening at the pizzeria.
“From Smakiyeh to Wahadneh and vice versa”… this is the title of my article that was published in Al Rai daily on March 3, 2005. I was at the time talking about the hardships faced by university students with regards to transportation. The question that arises is why do I love these two townships? The reason I dearly love them is because the latter, located in the northern part of the homeland, is my township where I spent the first decade, while the former, located in the southern part of the homeland, is the place where I spent ten years as priest of the Latin Patriarchate.
A “Chinese Bishops’ Conference in communion with the Pope” is “what we hope to see and that for which we have been praying for a long time”: the viewpoint of Joseph Wei Jingyi, the “clandestine” Catholic bishop in Qiqihar, in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Wei is a known member of the so-called “clandestine” Chinese Church: an unfortunate and misleading term used to indicate the part of bishops, priests and faithful who are not subject to the organisms and methods of religious politics in Beijing.
They are 21 Syrians. The children presented their drawings to Francis, the Pope gave toys. The refugees are guests of the Community of Sant’Egidio
The Pope had lunch on Thursday, August 11, with 21 Syrian refugees who are living in Rome after the same Francis took on the task of bringing them to Italy following his trip to the Greek island of Lesbos on 16 April.
