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Vatican City, May 31, 2017 / 06:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After a major suicide bomb tore through a busy neighborhood in Kabul, killing at least 80 people, Pope Francis condemned the ‘brutal’ act, offering his prayers for the victims and for peace in the country.“Having learned with sadness of the abhorrent attack in Kabul and of the many dead and seriously injured, Pope Francis expresses his heartfelt condolences to all affected by this brutal act of violence,” a May 31 telegram signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said.Pope Francis, he said, “commends the souls of the deceased to the mercy of the Almighty, and assures the people of Afghanistan of his continued prayers for peace.”The Pope’s letter, addressed to Afghani ambassador to Italy, was sent hours after a suicide bomb exploded in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul, Afghanistan, killing some 80 people and wounding nearly 300 others, according to CNN.Hidden in a wate...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' very public friendshipwith and overtures to Pentecostal and evangelical leaders is a high-profilereflection of a relationship that already existed at the grass roots between Catholiccharismatics and some of their Spirit-filled neighbors, leaders of the renewal said.While some Pentecostals in some parts of the world,especially in Latin America, have a reputation for trying to convince Catholicsto leave the church, the reality of the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship ismuch more varied.In many places, they share praise, worship, music and Biblestudies with Catholic charismatics, and they set out together to proclaim toall that Jesus is Lord and work alongside each other to feed the poor anddefend the unborn.Pope Francis invited some 300 Pentecostal and evangelicalleaders to Rome to join an estimated 30,000 Catholic charismatics incelebrating Pentecost and marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholiccharismatic r...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians are called to be"sowers of hope," consoling and defending the poor and anyone inneed, Pope Francis said.As Christians prepared to celebrate Pentecost June 4, Pope Francis used hisweekly general audience May 31to speak about the power of the Holy Spirit to strengthen the hope ofbelievers and to send them forth to instill hope in others.Sowing bitterness or perplexity, he said, "isn'tChristian and if you do this, you aren't Christian. Sow hope. Spread the oil ofhope, diffuse the perfume of hope and not the vinegar of bitterness andhopelessness."In his Letter to the Romans (15:13), St. Paul prays, "May the God of hope fillyou with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by thepower of the Holy Spirit."Having an abundance of hope, Pope Francis said, means notonly hoping that when life is over one will be with God. It also means havingthe strength today to continue hoping "even when there is les...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Latest on the massive suicide truck bombing that hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, during morning rush hour (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from a landmark global climate agreement, a White House official said Wednesday, though Trump and aides were looking for "caveats in the language" related to the exit and had not made a final decision....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has recalled the 75th anniversary of the Lidice massacre at the hands of the Nazi regime during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday.In a special Czech-language greeting to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, the Holy Father invited them to rely “with trust on the intercession of the Holy Virgin, whom you venerate in the icon of the Madonna of Lidice”.He prayed Our Lady help them “to be courageous witnesses of the Resurrection of Christ, especially in difficult or trying moments”.The group is participating in a national pilgrimage being led by Cardinal Dominik Duka, Archbishop of Prague.The village of Lidice (then in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and now in the Czech Republic) was completely destroyed by Nazi troops in 1942.All 173 men over the age of 15 were killed in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich.
In a video, a Catholic priest abducted by armed terrorists in southern Philippines, has appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to end every offensive against the abductors in order to free those kidnapped. Fr. Teresito “Chito” Suganob, the vicar general of Marawi Prelature, who was abducted on 24 May by the Maute group that owes allegiance to Islamic State terrorist group, was seen in a Facebook video on 30 May saying the militants are demanding a stop to the military offensive against them for the sake of the “prisoners of war”, according to CBCPNews of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Maute wants withdrawal of armed forces and an end to airstrikes‘Mr. President, …. from our heart, please consider us,” Fr. Suganob in mufti and a flowing white beard appealed in English. “They don’t ask for anything, they just ask that you leave this place peacefully.” “We are i...
