Southern Cross Newspaper Sellers!
Tina Steer (left) has been selling The Southern Cross for over 20 years at Our Lady Help of Christians chapel […]
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Bishops condemn selling of Nigerians into slavery in Libya
A trio of Nigerian bishops condemned the enslavement of Nigerians who traveled to Libya for work, calling the practice a horrific abuse of human dignity.
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Church Peace & Justice
African Traditions Can Help Build Peace
The Gospel extends a peace greeting to all men of good will. FR PETER CHIMOMBE argues that traditional African methods of resolving conflict can serve as models for making peace.
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Reflecting on Pope Francis’ 2018 New Year Message
On behalf of the world’s often unwanted refugees and migrants, Pope Francis in his Jan. 1 World Day of Peace message titled “Migrants and Refugees: Men and Women in Search of Peace” pleads: “In a spirit of compassion, let us embrace all those fleeing from war and hunger, or forced by discrimination, persecution, poverty and environmental degradation to leave their homelands.”
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Prayer Your Letters
Let’s Be Peacemakers in 2018
Our country, our continent, our world are like this today, and there are so many things we need to pray about, as we often cannot help in any other way except by asking God’s almighty help. But do we?
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Franciscans involved in making of ‘The Sultan and the Saint’ documentary
The encounter in 1219 between St. Francis of Assisi and Malek al-Kamil, the sultan of Egypt, during yet another flashpoint in the long history of the Crusades – the subject of one famous fresco in Assisi, Italy – has been made into a documentary. “The Sultan and the Saint”.
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