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Asian Church Leaders Search for Grassroots Perspective on Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace
General secretaries and other high-ranking national church leaders from nine Asian countries gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 4-7 September to pave the way...
Five years after Typhoon Haiyan, Filipinos continue to rebuild
On average, the Philippines is hit by 8-9 tropical typhoons per year. These storms can cause significant damage - but they rarely reach the...
Pope Francis appeals for Yemen’s starving children
Vatican City, Feb 3, 2019 / 05:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During the Angelus Sunday, Pope Francis urged people to think of and...
Churches called to “break new ground” in gender justice
World Council of Churches (WCC) representatives involved in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women say its outcomes reflect many...
Swiss church bells toll as women pray and march for equality
When church bells tolled at the 11th hour on 14 June, they were signalling solidarity with a national "strike" for women's equality...
Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Chaplains Respond to Mass Shootings
Teams of crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) are on their way to El Paso, Texas, and Dayton,...
Hong Kong Catholic leaders: Vatican involvement in protests unlikely
Catholics in Hong Kong are continuing to participate in large-scale protests on the island territory, which have been going on now for...
Church must convert from cultural, ecological sins, Amazon synod concludes
The Amazon synod final document, published Saturday, laid out the need to define “ecological sins” while calling the Church to walk new...
Pope Francis on sharing the Christian message in ‘reality’
Pope Francis spoke Friday about how the Gospel message must be based in concrete reality, through which Christ himself communicates to the...
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