By Judith Sudilovsky
Bishops from three continents met virtually with Catholics in the Holy Land this year and, despite not being able to meet face-to-face, said remote discussions have still allowed them to listen to local Christians and demonstrate their solidarity.
“We are all sharing hope; it is something which has to be generated,” Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor, the diocese based in Armagh, Northern Ireland, told Catholic News Service Jan. 18 in a virtual interview. He said the bishops, members of the Holy Land Coordination, would use technology to share what they have learned with their local communities.
Bishops ask U.K. to eliminate nuclear arsenal, use money for poor
Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland have jointly asked the government to scrap the country s nuclear weapons
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HMS Vengeance returning to HMNB Clyde in 2007. (Photo: wikipedia)
The U.K. should forsake its nuclear arsenal and spend the money it saves on helping the poorest people of society, Catholic bishops said.
In a Jan. 11 statement, Scottish and English bishops said the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons offered an opportunity to build peace through dialogue rather than the threat of mutual destruction.
They said that the treaty, which was signed by 122 countries in 2017 and will come into legal force Jan. 22, was a historic milestone on the path to nuclear disarmament.
Crew members from the HMS Vengeance, a British Royal Navy Trident ballistic missile submarine, stand on their vessel as they return to the Faslane naval base near Glasgow, Scotland, in this file photo. Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland have issued a joint statement calling upon the U.K. government to scrap the country s nuclear weapons. (CNS photo/Reuters/David Moir)
Manchester, England The U.K. should forsake its nuclear arsenal and spend the money it saves on helping the poorest people of society, Catholic bishops said.
In a Jan. 11 statement, Scottish and English bishops said the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons offered an opportunity to build peace through dialogue rather than the threat of mutual destruction.
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