religious violence Archives

School kids in CAR get ‘guns instead of pens,’ cardinal laments
- Global Church
- August 21, 2017
Speaking exclusively to Crux on a visit to neighboring Cameroon, Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, described the youth of his country as “a lost generation, because they are born into violence,” and also insisted that the root causes of the carnage are political rather than religious.
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Vatican confirms Pope to visit Egypt April 28-29
- Pope Francis in Egypt, Vatican
- March 18, 2017
Following various media reports, the Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will visit Egypt April 28-29 in order to stop at the Al-Azhar university and mosque, considered the premier center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, to press the campaign against religious violence.
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Vandals rob church at site of Jesus’s transfiguration
- Global Church
- October 26, 2016
In what the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem described as a ‘heinous’ act, unidentified vandals stole from and desecrated one of the Holy Land’s most important churches, marking the spot where Jesus ‘shone’ with God’s glory.
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Ghana man attacks churches in Rome, motive unclear

A 39-year old man from Ghana in Africa destroyed several statues at different Roman churches on Friday night and Saturday morning, before being arrested by local police and after being impeded by a Catholic priest, and his motives for the assaults remain unknown.

Francis remembers missionary sisters on the front line

Pope Francis points to the heroic work of religious sisters recently killed like Sister Isabel Sola Matas. After her death in Haiti some of her writing came to light which reflected her thinking in the face of danger. “Haiti is my home, my family, my work, my suffering and my joy, and my place of encounter with God.”