VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis has continued his predecessors serious commitment to ecumenical dialogue, but he also makes ecumenical gestures that underline that seriousness.
During his formal meeting May 11 with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Egypt, Pope Francis announced that he was adding to the Catholic calendar of saints the 21 Coptic martyrs killed in Libya by Islamic State fighters in 2015.
Pope Francis repeatedly has said that the 21, like most Christian martyrs
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VATICAN CITY The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast