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Hace 5 días · Pope Francis met May 4 with participants in a conference marking the 350th anniversary of the 17th-century apparitions of Jesus to French St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, which included his call to promote devotion to his sacred heart and to make acts of reparation or penance for the times people have not recognized Christ's love.
Hace 5 días · The first thing Catholics must always do is pray and intercede. That’s why on Oct. 17 and 27, Pope Francis asked all Catholics to pray, fast and do penance for peace in the Holy Land. Catholics do not need to wait for the Pope to ask, however.
Hace 1 día · “We can safely say that all wars, by the mere fact that they contradict human dignity itself, are dynamics not intended by their nature to solve problems, but rather to exacerbate them,” he said. Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that weapons themselves are not the primary threat to peace in the world but rather the way that humanity ...
Hace 5 días · Surely, we can sit in discomfort and forgo a little time in our day to pray for those who have died, those who suffer, and for peace in the Holy Land. Pope Francis stated, “I urge believers to take just one side in this conflict: that of peace. But not in words — in prayer, with total dedication.”
Hace 4 días · World news. Pope says Holy Land conflict is no longer war, “it's terrorism" Pope Francis, in separate meetings with Israeli and Palestinian delegations, says both sides are victims of the...
Hace 5 días · In his lecture on Thursday, Pizzaballa made overtures to the historical roots of the conflict in order to stress the “plurirelgious” and “pluricultural” nature of the Holy Land and to open a reflection on the importance of narrative in the process of peace.
Hace 1 día · On Oct. 4, 1965 – on the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, one of the most famous apostles of peace in Christian history – Pope Paul VI gave an impassioned and groundbreaking speech to the United Nations. The most famous line still rings emphatically in our ears today: “No more war; war never again!”. In describing the “holy cause ...
