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28 Oct 2011 – ASSISI, Italy (CNS) — A common thread ran through many of the speeches and invocations of this
year’s “prayer for peace” encounter in Assisi: the uneasy
sense that the world is facing not merely conflicts and wars, but a much broader crisis that affects social and
cultural life in every country. Read more...
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27 Oct 2011 – VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI
prayed that his interreligious pilgrimage to Assisi would
promote dialogue among believers of different faiths and
help the world move toward peace and reconciliation. Read more...
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27 Oct 2011 – VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI
offered prayers for the victims of Turkey’s magnitude 7.2
earthquake as Catholic aid agencies worked to support the
tens of thousands of victims left homeless in temperatures
that approached freezing each night. Read more...
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26 Oct 2011 – OTTAWA, Ontario (CNS) — Years ago, Melkite
Archbishop Elias Chacour flew to Washington, D.C., to
make an unannounced visit to the home of then-Secretary
of State James Baker. Read more...
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25 Oct 2011 – NEW YORK (CNS) — Unless Middle Eastern
countries support religious freedom and respect human
rights, the “Arab spring” movement will devolve into an
“Arab winter,” said Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai. Read more...
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25 Oct 2011 – BEIRUT (CNS) — Catholic leaders said they
could not rejoice at the death of Libyan dictator Moammar
Gadhafi, but they recalled some of his more brutal
moments and speculated on the future of Christians in the
region. Read more...
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25 Oct 2011 – ISTANBUL (CNS) — A team from Caritas offices
in Turkey was headed east to assess needs in the region hit
by the Oct. 23 earthquake. Read more...
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21 Oct 2011 – VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jewish groups have
called on the Vatican to suspend reconciliation talks with
a traditionalist group after one of its bishops argued that
the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Jesus. Read more...
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