(CNA) When 90-year-old Cardinal Christian Tumi was interrogated in captivity by armed separatists in Cameroon last week, he calmly told his captors that he had been called by God to preach only what is true.
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ETHIOPIA’S BISHOPS CALL FOR PEACE, AS DEADLY REGIONAL CONFLICT WORSENS
(CNA) A conflict between the Ethiopian government and the government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region must halt immediately, or it will destroy more lives and turn the country into a “failure,” Ethiopia’s Catholic bishops have said.
Encounter with Spain in the Forbidden City
Maria Kwak In the year 1611, the funeral of Matteo Ricci took place at Zhalan on All Saint’s Day. Ricci was the first European to enter the Forbidden City in 1601 upon the invitation of Emperor Wanli (r. 1572-1620). Just…
POPE AT MASS ON WORLD DAY OF POOR – ‘The poor guarantee us eternal income’
(Vatican News) The World Day of the Poor was instituted in 2016 by Pope Francis and is celebrated annually on the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
FORMED BY RELIGIOUS ROOTS AND TRAGEDY – “Catholic social doctrine taught me that faith without works is dead”
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent Joe Biden recovered from terrible family tragedies twice. Only days into being elected into the US Senate, his wife and daughter were killed and sons seriously injured. While in Washington setting up his office his family…
Nice: martyrs of a new era
Carlos M. Frota Hatred is never the answer! Dialogue is always possible, mutual understanding the only way forward. And the real challenge for political and religious leaders alike is how to insist more and more on a message of fraternity…
POPE FRANCIS OFFERS MASS FOR SOULS OF 169 DECEASED BISHOPS, CARDINALS
(CNA) Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to pray for the dead and remember Christ’s promise of the resurrection at a Mass offered Thursday for the souls of cardinals and bishops who died in the past year.
PASTORAL LETTER ON THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF SUPER TYPHOON YOLANDA – “He calms the storm”
Beloved People of God: Grace and peace from the Lord Jesus Christ! It has been seven years since Super Typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda came our way. Despite the pandemic we are going through, we still have fresh memories of the…
POPE ASSURES CLOSENESS TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE – ‘Time to Eradicate This Evil’
Deborah Castellano Lubov (Zenit) A day after the Vatican’s report on ex-Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to all victims of sexual abuse.
PHILIPPINE CHURCHES OPEN DOORS TO TYPHOON EVACUEES
(Catholic News Service) Churches in the Philippines opened their doors to offer shelter to some of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled their homes to avoid the wrath of Super Typhoon Goni that struck the Bicol region in…