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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,” and the multitude of contradictions and trials the world faces today, Christmas is still a season of ...

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 Korea's 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 Promotion of Integral Human Development, said that the Holy See aims to shine a light on the “ca...

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 brightest minds to other nations. ROSARIO, Argentina – Cardinal Mario Zenari, papal representative ...

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 Forest, Pantanal, Pampa, and Coastal Zone biomes. Amid the bankruptcy and total collapse of the ongoing n...

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’s north, fell to the Islamic State group in 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) December 10, 2020 V...