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Christmas still a season of hope and joy in Syria Dec 21, 2020 rome bureau chief A displaced Syrian family who fled violence in Aleppo stands in a field in the rural area of Manbij in 2016. (Credit: Rodi Said/Reuters via CNS.) Despite the “raging pandemic,” and the multitude of contradictions and trials the world faces today, Christmas is still a season of hope and rejoice, according to the archbishop of war-torn Aleppo, in Syria. ROSARIO, Argentina — Despite the “raging pandemic,” a...

Top Vatican officials call for world free of nuclear weapons Dec 17, 2020 rome bureau chief In this July 4, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in North Koreas northwest. (Credit: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP.) Opening a Vatican-sponsored webinar, Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Dicastery for the...

Cardinal says media has forgotten about Syria Dec 15, 2020 rome bureau chief Internally displaced Syrian children who fled Raqqa city stand near their tent in Ras al-Ain, Syria, Jan. 22, 2017. (Credit: Rodi Said/Reuters via CNS.) Cardinal Mario Zenari, papal representative in Syria, warns that despite the war that afflicted this country for the past decade being seemingly over, there are several “bombs” still going off in the country, including that of extreme poverty and an exodus of the b...

Public letter: everything is interconnected as if we were one in this common house 2020 National Seminar — Forum on Climate Change and Social-Environmental Justice Public letter We, the participants of the 2020 National Seminar – Forum on Climate Change and Socio-Environmental Justice, gathered virtually from December 1st to 4th, 2020. We are representatives of the five regions of Brazil (North, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, and South) and also the Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Fores...

With Iraq trip upcoming, Pope Francis makes appeal for peace in Middle East After announcing that he would travel to Iraq in March, Pope Francis spoke about the country’s worsening humanitarian crisis in a video, calling for peace and stability. Iraqi Christians pray at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, damaged by Islamic State fighters during their occupation of Qaraqosh, east of Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 12, 2016. Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town on the Nineveh Plains in Iraq�...

Remunerated employment, adequate food and drinking water, religious freedom and, more generally, spiritual freedom and education. these pillars of integral human development have a common foundation, which is the right to life and, more generally, what we could call the right to existence of human nature itself. the ecological crisis, and the large-scale destruction of

That above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty and deprived of all rights. [ applause ] to enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty, we must allow them to be dignified agents of their own destiny. integral human development and the full exercise of human acts of dignity cannot be imposed. they must be built up and allowed to unfold for each

Instance above ourselves. when we see nothing else but ourselves. conconsequently the defense of the environment and the fight against exclusion demand that we recognize a moral law written into human nature itself, one which includes the natural difference between man and woman and the absolute respect for life, in all its stages and dimensions. [applause] without the recognition of certain incontestable natural ethical limits and without the immediate implementation of those pillars of integra...

Constantly conscious of the fact that, above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights. to enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty, we must allow them to be dignified agents of their own destiny. integral human development and the full exercise of human dignity cannot be imposed. they must be built up and allowed to unfold for each individual...