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Healing a “distorted, bloodied and corrupted society”   The leader of Nigeria’s Catholics has made an impassioned plea for peace and dialogue as the country faces violence, crippling economic crisis, and the threat of famine in the north-east, where militants continue to carry out attacks.The call comes at a time [...]

CONGO - A spring of water welling up in glorious Kinshasa   A Contemplative community of religious Sisters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who pray for persecuted Christians will have their future ensured by a new well, after a chronic shortage of water threatened their survival. “We [...]

Orthodox and Catholics: “Saving unborn children together in the Spirit of Christ”   Orthodox and Catholics in Russia are developing joint initiatives for the protection of life. In doing so, they are transforming shared beliefs into concrete programmes and responding tothe appeal made by their church leaders. The pontifical foundation [...]

SYRIA - “A Lent of tears”   Marking the beginning of Lent 2017 with a pastoral letter, the leader of the Maronite Church in Damascus, Archbishop Samir Nassar, described the situation in Syria in terms of an “apocalypse … a large wasteland of ruins, pulverized buildings, burned out homes, neighborhoods turned [...]

MALAWI - Priest thanks benefactors for new vehicle which enables him to carry out pastoral work   In 2017 Father Lazarus Kennedy Girevulo will be celebrating the Silver Jubilee of his ordination. When he was first ordained, almost 25 years ago, in the Cathedral of St Augustine in Mangochi, he never [...]