Dialogue rather than arms is the solution to global conflict according to the official representative of Vatican politics, Archbishop Edumnd Farhat. Farhat, speaking at the International conference on the global Fight against Terrorism in Theran insisted that charity, dialogue and pardon were the ways forward. “There is no word for terrorism in my religion, Christianity,” Farhat Read more
Tripoli’s Roman Catholic bishop, Giovanni Martinelli along with other Christian leaders has called on the international community not to give arms to the Libyan rebels. “The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, [but] rather a way to lengthening it.” “We hope that in our small Read more
The Courtyard of the Gentiles, held recently in Paris, has exposed a gaping deficit on the level of communication. No press office. No text made available to the media, neither before, nor during, nor after. Only those present and those listening to Radio Notre-Dame or viewing KTO TV to were able to hear the words of Read more
A Vatican initiative to promote dialogue between believers and atheists, ended over the weekend with the Pope urging youth to put God back in the debate and to “tear down the barriers of fear of the other, the foreigner, of those who are not like you” that mutual ignorance can create. Benedict said religions had Read more