Religious extremism Archives

Could ‘British values’ anti-extremism push jeopardize Catholics?
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- August 9, 2017
British Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has warned against a “destructive extremism” which seeks to deconstruct marriage, family, and human identity, and which “calls for medical experimentation with no reference to ethical boundaries; that decrees the unborn may live only to terms fixed by man, demands legal protections be removed from the sick and the aged.”
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Francis offers reassuring hand to a world darkened by war
- Vatican
- January 9, 2017
Pope Francis struck a sombre tone in his annual address to ambassadors, as if detecting in this moment the signs of the coming of war. While putting down red markers over Israel-Palestine and migration, the heart of his message was the need to make peace in a time of turbulence.
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Crux columnist gets top South Carolina civilian honor
- Church in the US
- October 18, 2016
Father Jeffrey Kirby, who writes a regular Sunday spirituality column for Crux, has been awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, by Governor Nikki Haley. In accepting, Kirby said his work among other things is crafted to show a different face for faith beyond religious extremism.
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Is Africa’s emerging superpower on the brink of religious war?

With one expert saying what’s happening in Nigeria is “one of the worst, most neglected humanitarian crises in the world,” Africa’s most populous nation, and the country with the largest populations of Christians and Muslims living side-by-side, may be about to erupt along ethnic and religious lines.

Chaplains work to uproot radicalization in prisons

VATICAN CITY — With visits to detention facilities and washing the feet of the detainees, Pope Francis has placed renewed emphasis on the work of mercy of visiting prisoners. However, some see a growing urgency for the Church to be present in cell blocks not just as part of its