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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Holy Thursday washed the feet of inmates at Paliano prison, south of Rome, during the Mass of Our Lord’s Supper.The Pope traveled to the penitentiary for a private visit and the celebration of Mass marking Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples on the day before his Crucifixion.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: In his off-the-cuff homily Pope Francis invited those present – and all Christians - to serve the other."The disciples, the Pope said, used to argue about who was the most important amongst them".“He who feels or thinks he is important, he continued, must become small and be a servant to the others. That is what God – who loves us as we are – does every day”.The center hosts some 70 inmates, and amongst those whose feet the Pope washed, there are 10 Italians, 1 Argentinean and 1 Albanian. Amongst them 3 are women and 1 is a Muslim who will receive the Sacrament of Baptism in the co...
(Vatican Radio) One of Europe's top courts says Russia has failed to protect the hostages of the Beslan school siege in which about 330 people, most of them children, died in 2004, prompting an angry reaction from Moscow. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Victims of one of Russia's most bloodiest hostage crisis learned Thursday that their painful-decade wait for justice had not been vain. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia failed to protect the hostages of the thee-day Beslan school siege in September 2004.More than 330 people were killed in what became known as the Beslan massacre, including 186 children. It happened after Chechen rebels took more than 1000 hostages to demand that Russian troops pull out of the republic Chechnya.The Strasbourg based court said Russian security forces had violated the victims right to life when they moved in to free the hostages in School Number One in the town of Beslan in Russia's troubled republic of No...
(Vatican Radio) In Venezuela officials confirm a fifth person has died, as a result of the ongoing anti-government protests, which have already lasted two weeks. More demonstrations are happening today. Listen to the report by James Blears: The dead include two students and a thirteen year old child. The latest protests flared, with a government decision to ban opposition leader Henrique Capriles from public office for 15 years. Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro are demanding that postponed regional elections must be held. President Maduro's vehicle was attacked by protesters, as he left a military celebration in the South Eastern State of Bolivar. It was pelted with stones, and also eggs...an increasingly rare commodity in Venezuela, where basic daily necessities are in scarce supply. Venezuela's Electoral Court has ruled against a Referendum on President Maduro's Administration, saying there was fraud in the initial voting p...
Rome, Italy, Apr 13, 2017 / 11:24 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis spent Holy Thursday washing the feet of inmates, telling them in a brief homily that God is someone who loves until the end. He urged them to imitate this love even while in prison.“Having loved his people who were in the world, he loved them to the end. God loves like this, to the end,” the Pope said April 13. “He gives life to each one of us and he boasts of this because he has love, and to love until the end isn’t easy.”“We are all sinners and we all have limits and defects,” he said. While we all know how to love, “we are not like God who loves without looking at the consequences.”He encouraged the inmates to imitate the love Jesus showed in washing the feet of his disciples, saying they didn’t need to get up and take their shoes off, but “if you can act as a help, do a service, here in prison, do it. Because this is love, it’s like washing ...
