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Thursday, March 11th, 2021
When did the church commit itself to better relations between Muslims and Catholics? I suppose the church really committed to dialogue and positive engagement at the Second Vatican Council, with the famous declaration on the relationship of the church to non-Christian religions, “Nostra Aetate.” There’s a paragraph in there dedicated to Islam and opening up Read more
Tags: Healing, Iraq, Islam, Muslim, Peace, Pope Francis
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on How Pope Francis is transforming Catholic-Muslim relations
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
Within an hour of Pope Francis arriving in Iraq, U.S. President Joe Biden was calling the visit a “symbol of hope for the entire world.” “Pope Francis’s visit was a historic and welcome first for the country,” Biden said. “It sent an important message, as Pope Francis said himself, that ‘fraternity is more durable than Read more
Tags: interreligious peace, Iraq, Peace, Pope Francis, US President Joe Biden
Posted in World | Comments Off on Biden sees Pope’s Iraq trip as a symbol of hope
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Pope Francis says his four-day visit to Iraq was a “pilgrimage of peace.” The first Catholic pope to visit Iraq, Francis’s history-making four-day trip began in Baghdad last Friday. His key message stressed peace in Iraq where wars, terrorism and sectarian conflicts have plagued it over several decades. “May there be an end to acts Read more
Tags: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq, Peace, Pope Francis
Posted in Top Story, World | Comments Off on Hostility, extremism and violence are betrayals of religion says Francis
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Pope Francis Social Encyclical: ‘Fratelli Tutti’ was launched at the Vatican, Sunday 4 October, 2020. The document focuses on fraternity and social friendship as the ways to build a better, more just and peaceful world – with the contribution of all: people and institutions. The official summary follows, with a link to download the full Read more
Tags: Borders, Charity, Death penalty, Forgiveness, Fratelli Tutti, Globalism, Human fraternity, kindness, Love, Marketplace, migrants, Peace, Politics, Pope Francis, Religious freedom, War, Weapons
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Fratelli Tutti – Summary of Francis Encyclical – on the fraternity and social friendship
Monday, October 5th, 2020
October 4, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti during a visit to Assisi. The encyclical calls for a new kind of politics and emphasises social friendship as a way to build a more just and peaceful world. It encourages the contribution of all people and institutions and seeks to build a global movement Read more
Tags: Borders, Charity, Death penalty, Forgiveness, Fratelli Tutti, Globalism, Human fraternity, kindness, Love, Marketplace, migrants, Peace, Politics, Pope Francis, Religious freedom, War, Weapons
Posted in World | Comments Off on Fratelli Tutti: Francis explores fraternity and social friendship
Monday, June 8th, 2020
Psalm 27:12 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will Read more
Tags: Comfort, Hope, Peace, The Bible
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Peace and comfort: 50 verses from the Bible
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
They came with a message of peace and left enriched by the same. A group of international peace runners traversed roads from Coromandel to Whangamata over a week that was memorable for everyone. The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run is a global relay seeking to inspire the creation of a more peaceful world. Eleven runners Read more
Tags: Peace, Peace-runners
Posted in New Zealand, News Shorts | Comments Off on Running NZ for peace – Peace runners visit schools
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
As Pope Francis beging the thirty-second trip of his pontificate Nov. 19 to Thailand and Japan, he will once again be visiting nations where Catholics are a small minority. In both countries, there’s one Catholic for every 200 people, as opposed to roughly one for five in the United States. The Nov. 19-26 trip will Read more
Tags: Death penalty, Japan, Peace, Pope Franics, sex tourism, Suicide, Thailand, Thailand and Japan 2019
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Sex tourism, suicide, the death penalty, peace: Pope visits Thailand and Japan
Monday, September 16th, 2019
For experts and locals alike, it seems Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to Thailand and Japan will not only highlight the Vatican’s strong ties with interreligious communities in each country, but it could also help the pope advance his ecological and peace-making agenda. Speaking to Crux, Adul Smanyaphirak, a Muslim living in Bangkok, said that for Read more
Tags: Asia, Ecological solidarity, Peace, Pope Francis
Posted in News Shorts, World | Comments Off on Pope heads to Asia seeking dialogue, peace and ecological solidarity
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
Every Monday morning for the past 30 years, members of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker community in Washington, D.C. have been making their way across the Potomac River to pray and nonviolently witness for peace in front of the most symbolic war planning, war-making headquarters on earth: the Pentagon. On August 6 – the 73rd Read more
Tags: Hiroshima, Peace
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Praying for peace at the Pentagon