Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Global Issues
by CNS · Published December 11, 2019 · Last modified December 10, 2019
By Barbara J. Fraser – From Chile to Haiti to Hong Kong, protests appear to be sweeping the globe. Although sparked by different events, they also reflect a common frustration with economic inequality and corrupt...
Bishops / Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Global Issues
by CNS · Published October 31, 2019 · Last modified October 30, 2019
As demonstrations pitting pro-government groups against pro-democracy protesters continue, a bishop urged Catholics to pray for the realisation that all are humans and not “cockroaches or dogs.” Ucanews.org reported Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing...
Church / Crisis / Global Issues
by CNS · Published October 24, 2019 · Last modified October 28, 2019
By Dale Gavlak – When Rifaa, her husband and three daughters escaped into Iraq in the dead of night, “there were dead bodies on the street” in Qamishli, Syria. “We found a smuggler to bring...
Church / Crisis / Global Issues / Human Rights / Religious Life
by CNS · Published September 17, 2019 · Last modified September 15, 2019
By Valentine Iwenwanne – Fatima Atewe, a single mother, knew it would be hard work, but she was excited to start a new job loading bricks into delivery trucks, earning as much as $27 a...
By Eduardo Campos Lima – After denouncing the record number of wildfires in the Amazon in August and the growing deforestation of the region, the Brazilian Catholic Church is pressuring the government to guarantee the...
Dealing With Life / Death / Global Issues / Magliano / Violence
by Tony Magliano · Published August 12, 2019
The recent tragic mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, killing at least 29 people, point to an ongoing epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. As of Aug. 5,...
By Michael Otto Catholic News Service – New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have expressed horror and distress at a terrorist attack in two mosques in Christchurch that saw at least 49 people killed. The shootings took...
Christian Living / Christian Mission / Global Issues
by asiel · Published November 19, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
People must make “a serious examination of conscience to understand whether we are really capable of listening to the poor,” the pope said in a message for World Day of the Poor
by Caleb SC · Published November 18, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
Prayer for the World Day of the Poor
Charity / Christen Torres / Christian Living / Christian Mission / Global Issues
by Christen Torres · Published November 18, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
World Day of the Poor was first proposed in 2016 in Pope Francis’ apostolic letter for the Year of Mercy, Misericordia et misera, which calls on the faithful to “make a serious examination of conscience, to see if we are truly capable of hearing the cry of the poor”.
Abuse / Christen Torres / Church Teaching / Global Issues
by Christen Torres · Published November 14, 2018
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg has called for the excommunication of all priests who abuse minors, and spoke with concern about the anger of young South Africans at what he called “broken promises”.
The exhibition, “Call for Freedom: Ireland and South Africa”, at the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island on Cape Town’s Waterfront, is organised by the Irish South African Association.
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