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The pope was meeting members of the Pauline Family.
The decision to remove Nigeria from the list of “Countries of Particular Concern” was “totally unjustified,” and a backwards step in the fight against religious persecution, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said in a speech Nov. 23.
‘Today, a revolution is underway,’ the pope told the Pontifical Council for Culture.
The pope’s general audience address focused on the genealogy of Jesus.
An international legal group has joined the outcry over the U.S. State Department’s decision to remove Nigeria from this year’s watchlist of countries with the most egregious violations of religious freedom.
Pope Francis gave the bishops a card with a meditation called ‘The Beatitudes of the Bishop.’
Pope Francis met young adults and teens participating in a songwriting contest based on the theme of Christmas.
Two young people joined the pope as he delivered his Angelus address.
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the feast of Christ the King.
While the concept of Jesus Christ being King is as old as the Gospels, the feast is fairly recent in the Roman Catholic calendar.
The papal team includes Swiss Guards and migrants.
Rights groups have documented thousands of killings of Nigerian Christians.
‘If priests, if society look to God, then I think things will change,’ he said.
The pope said that justice and peace could be built only through ‘two paths.’
The pope’s new catechetical cycle is devoted to Jesus’ foster father.
‘The number of people forced to flee their homelands continues to grow,’ the pope said.
Secular Franciscan Order is holding its general chapter in Rome.
When one is faced with an important difficult decision, Pope Francis’ advice is to imagine standing before Christ at the “threshold of eternity” because that is what ultimately matters.
The pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of 2,000 people living in poverty and the volunteers who assist them.
Seton Hall University and the Catholic University of South Sudan have entered into a partnership aimed at fostering student and faculty exchanges, joint research efforts, and other initiatives.