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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, in audience on Wednesday morning. Following the meeting with the Holy Father, Rutte met with the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, and the Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher.A communiqué from the Press Office of the Holy See states that the Pope and the Prime Minister held cordial discussions that ouched on the good bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the Holy See, and focused on questions of mutual interest such as the phenomenon of migration, as well as various issues of an international character.
(Vatican Radio) In a bid to promote religious harmony in Pakistan, Muslim farmers have joined hands with Christians to build a demolished church in Khalsabad village near Gojra in Toba Tek Singh district.Gojra made the news in 2009 when houses of Christians were attacked by a Muslim mob on accusations of blasphemy. As many as ten Christians were killed in the tragedy including seven who were burnt alive in their houses. Four churches located in nearby villages were also destroyed by the mob.However, some six years after the Gojra incident, Muslims of the same area have decided to support their Christian fellows in the construction of a mud chapel, which was swept away during the last monsoon rains season.Dilawar Hussain, who is a Muslim shopkeeper in the same village, also participated in the building of the church. He donated Rs10,000 for construction of the church, after he came to know about the project at a community meeting in the beginning of April.Hussain says that ch...
(Vatican Radio) The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived on the Greek island of Crete on Wednesday ahead of the opening of a historic meeting of Orthodox leaders at the weekend.The ‘Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church’, as the week long encounter is called, was due to bring together the heads of the 14 Autocephalous, or self-governed, Orthodox Churches to consider some of the most pressing issues facing believers in countries around the world today.Over the past few weeks, the Bulgarian, Syrian, Georgian, Serbian and Russian Primates have threatened to boycott the meeting over questions they say should be settled before such a Synod can begin. Patriarch Bartholomew, who will preside at the meeting, said he is personally calling the other leaders to remind them of their responsibilities in light of their unanimous decision on the Council’s agenda, taken in Geneva at the end of January.Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting C...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met several people following his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, including 26 year-old Lena Bröder – Miss Germany 2016 – who also happens to be a teacher of religion and home economics in Germany’s school system.Bröder is also the author of a volume, Das Schöne in mir - Mit Glaube zum Erfolg – “The Beautiful in me: with faith to success” – due on bookshelves in Germany later this month.German wire service reports quote Bröder as calling the meeting with Pope Francis, “moving,” and as saying that she told the Holy Father she would have him in her prayers.
Vatican City, Jun 15, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The new letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was issued to help the Church in her mission of providing answers in the face of difficulties, the congregation's head said on Tuesday.“The Church must give answers to the big challenges of the world of today … We have so much isolation in the youth, broken families, and so it is good to have these new movements,” Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the CDF, told EWTN News Nightly June 14.He was speaking following the presentation of Iuvenescit Ecclesia, a letter from the congregation on the relationship between the hierarchal and charismatic gifts in the life and mission of the Church.The document is meant to show the theological and ecclesiological elements that will help groups of the faithful, ecclesial movements, and new communities to participate fruitfully in the Church's mission and communion.Cardinal Müller cit...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Indifference and hostility can blindChristians from recognizing Jesus in those most in need, Pope Francis said. "This indifference and hostility can turn intoaggression" toward people often marginalized by society, the pope saidJune 15 during his weekly general audience."How many times, when we see so many people on thestreet -- people in need, the sick, those with nothing to eat -- wefeel bothered. How many times, when we find before us so many refugees anddisplaced people, we feel bothered. It is a temptation; we all have this,everyone, including myself," he said. The pope reflected on the Gospel reading of a blind beggarin Jericho whose sight was restored after pleading with Jesus to heal him. "The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him tobe silent, but he kept calling out all the more, 'Son of David, have pity onme!'" theGospel reading says. Those who toldthe beggar to be quiet, the pope recalled, repr...
LONDON (AP) -- Prince William has appeared on the cover of the U.K. gay magazine, "Attitude" to speak out against bullying people because of their sexuality....
PARIS (AP) -- Police have been alerted to the possibility that small groups of extremists have left Syria for France and Belgium with plans to stage attacks, but have not raised threat levels, as authorities work to determine how credible the information is....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has told NATO allies that the U.S. will take another look at withdrawing thousands of American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, a British official said....
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius removed his prostheses and hobbled on his stumps in front of a judge in a South African courtroom Wednesday, part of his defense team's attempt to show that the double-amputee Olympic athlete, convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency when he is sentenced....
