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NEW YORK (AP) -- American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades....
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis spoke on Thursday of the suffering of innocent victims caught up in the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts, saying that nothing can justify such terrible violence. His words came as he met with the head of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Gewargis III, who was making his first visit to the Vatican since being elected as Catholicos-Patriarch in September last year.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In his words to the new leader of this Church, which traces its roots back to the apostles Thomas and Bartholomew, the Pope appealed for an end to the conflicts in the Middle East which cause such great suffering to Christians and members of other religious or ethnic minorities.Every day, the Pope said, Christians in these places "walk the way of the Cross". They remind us that Jesus is always at the heart of our faith, even in our adversity, calling us to live out his message of love, reconciliation and forgiveness.Blood of martyrs is seed ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met leading representatives of Caritas on Thursday and urged them to persevere in their fight against poverty and at the same time learn from the poor themselves. The participants at the audience in the Vatican included leading Caritas officials from across the world.The Pope did not read his prepared remarks, instead handing out the text of his address and speaking off the cuff, followed by a question and answer session with those present.In his prepared remarks the Pope noted that we are called to act against social exclusion of the weakest and strive for their integration. With our society dominated by the throw-away culture, we need to overcome that indifference and learn the art of solidarity. Your mission, he went on, is to promote charity and justice in our world in the light of the gospel and the teaching of the Church by involving the poor as the true protagonists of their development.Stressing it is possible to change things, the Pope sa...
Bangladesh’s over 156 million population is overwhelmingly Muslim. While some 88% of the people profess Islam, Christians are a tiny minority. Catholics who number over 350 thousand form a mere 0.2 percent of the country’s population. Catholicism came to the region in the 16th century with the arrival of Portuguese traders and along with them also missionaries. The first church in Bangladesh was built by Portuguese Jesuits in 1599 at Chandecan (also called Iswaripur or old Jessore) near Kaliganj in the Sunderbans of present Satkhira district.The Xaverian Missionaries are among several foreign missionary congregations working in Bangladesh. Fr. Marcello Storgato, is a 73-year old Rome-born Xaverian missionary, who worked in Bangladesh for 21 years from 1972 until 1994 when he was called to serve in the Xaverian media in Brescia, Italy. In an interview with him, we came to know a lot about the Xaverian mission in Bangladesh. Last...
Vatican City, Nov 17, 2016 / 06:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday Pope Francis warned Catholic business leaders against the danger of worshipping money, saying corruption is to follow the lies of the devil, whereas practices aimed for the common good are always built around principals of honesty and fraternity.“Corruption is the worst social plague. It’s the lie of seeking personal gain of that of the group itself under the guise of a service to society,” the Pope said Nov. 17.The attitude of corruption “is the crassest selfishness, hidden behind an apparent generosity,” he said, noting that corruption stems from the worship of money and comes back warp the worshipper, making them “a prisoner of that same worship.”Corruption, he said, “is a fraud to democracy” and opens the doors to “terrible evils” such as drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, the sale of organs and arms trafficking. Above all, “co...
Vatican City, Nov 17, 2016 / 08:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a meeting with the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Thursday, Pope Francis criticized ongoing violence in Iraq and Syria, saying no motive can justify or allow the killing of innocent people, especially children.Asking the Lord for the “gift of peace,” the Pope said he was “dismayed by what continues to happen in the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Syria.”“There, upon hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women and men is poured the terrible violence of bloody conflicts, which no motive can justify or allow,” he said.In Iraq and Syria, he said, “our Christian brothers and sisters, as well as various religious and ethnic minorities, are unfortunately accustomed to suffer great trials every day.”“In the midst of so much pain, of which I implore the end, every day we see Christians who walk the way of the cross meekly following the footsteps of Jesus.&r...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Where there is no tenderness, thereis cruelty and what is unfolding in Syria is a veritable "workshop ofcruelty," Pope Francis told governing members of Caritas Internationalis."I believe the greatest illness of today is cardiacsclerosis," he said Nov. 17, implying a kind of hardening of the heartthat renders a person unable to feel compassion or be moved by another'ssuffering.An example of this, he said, is Syria and how so manyparties are involved in the conflict, each bent on seeking its own interestsand not the freedom and well-being of the people."Where there is no tenderness, there is alwayscruelty. And what is happening today in Syria is cruelty. There areintersecting interests, a workshop of cruelty," he said.At the meeting of the Caritas Internationalis' representativecouncil, Pope Francis also discussed the dangers of bureaucracies and his hopethat Caritas would not be one."I would like Caritas not to be an institution thatdepends on th...
