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Vatican City, Sep 3, 2016 / 04:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Mercy is not an abstract idea, but is rather expressed in concrete actions of love toward the poor and needy, who in their daily lives walk the same path of Calvary that Jesus did, Pope Francis has said.“Love is the highest expression of life; it allows us to exist!” the Pope said Sept. 3, speaking to an audience of workers and volunteers of mercy present for a special Jubilee in their honor.When confronted with this “truth of the faith,” the Church, he said, “cannot look away and turn her back on the many forms of poverty that cry out for mercy… Calvary is always real; it has not disappeared at all, nor does it remain with us merely as a nice painting in our churches.”To walk by and ignore the man dying on the side of the road, he said, “is a serious sin! It’s a modern sin, it’s the sin of today!”“We Christians cannot allow ourselves to be like this,&rdquo...
Rimini, Italy, Sep 3, 2016 / 05:50 am (CNA).- To overcome conflicts, to fight hatred with goodness, to make Ukraine a free and European country: these are the tasks of the Catholic Church in Ukraine, according to a priest with knowledge of the situation.Christians in Ukraine are facing a difficult experience. Despite the near-constant conflict, the humanitarian emergency Ukrainian Christians face has disappeared from the world’s sight.Ukrainian priest Fr. Oleksandr Khalayim spoke about the situation at a meeting in Rimini, Italy hosted by Aid to the Church in Need, an international Catholic ministry that supports the Church in areas where it is persecuted.But how exactly is the Church persecuted in Ukraine? While Ukrainian Christians have been key supporters of Ukrainian independence, the Greek-Catholic Church of Ukraine has been keen to state that it wishes to be close to all the people, and not take a political position.“The persecution of the Church in Ukraine has las...
GENEVA (AP) -- With war trumping peace efforts in recent weeks in Syria, U.N.-mediated talks sputtered over another missed deadline to resume this past week. Analysts say patience is waning and prospects for a deal brokered by the United Nations are wearing increasingly thin....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis is urging people to resist what "the temptation to indifference" to suffering in a speech on the eve of a ceremony to formally proclaim Mother Teresa a saint....
HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Setting aside their cyber and maritime disputes, President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's Paris climate change agreement. They hailed their new era of climate cooperation as the best chance for saving the planet....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the players and staff of the AS Roma soccer club, along with the players and staff of his own favorite Argentine San Lorenzo de Almagro club on Friday.Click below to hear our report AS Roma is to face San Lorenzo in a friendly contest on Saturday afternoon.All proceeds from the friendly, are to be donated to the ongoing earthquake relief effort in central Italy, which was struck on August 24th by a temblor that killed nearly 300 people and caused massive devastation.“Thanks for your visit,” Pope Francis told the clubs, “and thanks for your generosity in giving to the earthquake victtims.”The audience took place a day ahead of the Festival of the Family organized by Roma as part of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.A note in English on the AS Roma website announcing the special audience notes that the Family Festival – which will be held at Rome’s Olympic Stadium – comes a...
(Vatican Radio) Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos has announced that the signing date for the final peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will be on 26 September.Listen to James Blears’ report: Many in Colombia and elsewhere thought this day would never ever come. It has taken 52 years of heartache and anguish, which has torn a nation asunder, for it to finally be whole again.More than quarter of a million are dead, 45,000 thousand missing, seven million displaced. President Juan Manuel Santos put the initialing ceremony into perspective by calling it the most important event of his life.Within one hundred and eighty days of the inked accord, the FARC will have handed over all their weapons over to United Nations Peacekeepers.On 2 October there will be the much anticipated Peace Referendum. An initial poll indicated that only 13 percent of voters approved the Pe...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Islam Karimov, whose harsh and ill-tempered rule governed Uzbekistan for a quarter-century, is to be buried in his home city of Samarkand....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- For many of the poor and destitute whom Mother Teresa served, the tiny nun was a living saint. Many at the Vatican would agree, but the Catholic Church nevertheless has a grueling process to make it official, involving volumes of historical research, the hunt for miracles and teams of experts to weigh the evidence. In Mother Teresa's case, the process will come to a formal end Sunday when Pope Francis declares the church's newest saint. Here's a lo...
HOD HASHARON, Israel (AP) -- France's burkini controversy is boosting the bottom line for Israeli makers of modest women's swimwear....
