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ROME, 11th October, 2021 (WAM) -- His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb and His Holiness Pope Francis have received their respective Zayed Award for Human Fraternity trophies this week. The Zayed Award for Human Fraternity is an independent global award recognising individuals and entities who are making profound contributions to human progress and peaceful coexistence. The award was established in February 2019 to mark the historic meeting between Pope Francis and the Grand...

Head of Catholic Church met judges of Zayed Award for Human Fraternity 2022

Grand Imam stresses Document on Human Fraternity never directed to a specific religion

Little Amal, a 3.5-meter-tall puppet of a Syrian girl, is touring Europe to draw attention to the challenges faced by young refugees. Her journey is at the heart of a transnational theater project titled "The Walk."

MUNDELEIN, Ill. (CNS) -- A Vatican official asked a group of bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary June 2 to think of migrants, whether they arrive for the short or long term, as parishioners and organize pastoral plans to tend to them.   Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vaticans Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, addressed via Zoom an emergency meeting of bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico, which included he

MUNDELEIN, Ill. (CNS) -- A Vatican official asked a group of bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary June 2 to think of migrants, whether they arrive for the short or long term, as parishioners and organize pastoral plans to tend to them.   Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vaticans Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, addressed via Zoom an emergency meeting of bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico, which included he

U.S. bishops should expand ministry to migrants, cardinal says A migrant mother from Venezuela embraces her child as they wait to be transported by Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande into Del Rio, Texas, May 27, 2021. (CNS photo/Go Nakamura, Reuters) By Rhina Guidos • Catholic News Service • Posted June 9, 2021 MUNDELEIN, Ill. (CNS) — A Vatican official asked a group of bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary June 2 to think of migrants, whether they arrive for the short or lon...

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate ran about 47 per cent of Canadas residential schools, including the one in Kamloops. They have refused to release…

The bishops embarked on a meeting to find ways to help migrants

On the final day of a historic meeting of international bishops and Catholic organizations, they discussed the challenges the church faces even while trying to get Catholics to understand church teaching on migrants.