Pope appeals on behalf of the people of Yemen and for refugees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/18/2018 - 01:48

After reciting the Angelus on Sunday, June 17, before thousands gathered in St Peter's Square, Pope Francis expressed an appeal for the people of Yemen and for refugees.

“I am following the dramatic circumstances of the people of Yemen”, the Pope said after concluding the recitation of the Angelus before thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square.

His Holiness, Pope Francis: A glimmer of hope

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 17:51

A dark cloud that keeps darkening with time seems to have descended on the Arab world since the landing of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt in July, 1798. It is even darker and more ominous than it was during the nearly two and a half centuries of the Crusader era, eight centuries previously. At least during those times, the two sides, though bitter enemies, viewed each other as humans.

"We have waited long enough"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 18:40

Recent events in my country, Jordan, whose people repeatedly have shown their resilience and steadfastness in the eye of the storm and their generosity to those less fortunate, serve only to highlight that now is the time for change.

Despite the plethora of complex formulae, economic models and hours of debate, many of our Arab nations still struggle to achieve the levels of development that will meet all our people’s needs. For while development requires economic growth, that alone is no guarantee of the social and economic progress that true development entails.

His Holiness, Pope Francis: A glimmer of hope

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 14:57

A dark cloud that keeps darkening with time seems to have descended on the Arab world since the landing of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt in July, 1798. It is even darker and more ominous than it was during the nearly two and a half centuries of the Crusader era, eight centuries previously. At least during those times, the two sides, though bitter enemies, viewed each other as humans.

“Listen to the cry of slavery and abandonment of the Amazonian peoples”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 15:37

The document for the Synod on the Amazon: denunciation of neocolonialism and of the “extrattivist” mentality. The cry of thousands of communities deprived of the Eucharist for too long: to find new paths to guarantee the sacrament to everyone. Hypotheses of official ministries for women.