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From Syria to Venezuela, Pope urges peace and softening ‘stony hearts’
- Dec 25, 2019
As he does every year, Pope Francis issued a special blessing on Christmas, offering prayers of peace for migrants and all countries facing violent conflict and asking Christians to do their part in showing God’s love in their daily actions.
On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis condemns ‘cruel violence’ in Sri Lanka
- Apr 21, 2019
Pope Francis on Easter Sunday offered prayers for the hundreds killed and injured in a series of bombings in Sri Lanka earlier that morning, calling the attacks an act of “cruel violence.”
In Christmas 2018 message, Francis models good classroom practice
- Dec 25, 2018
If we reframe the pope’s Christmas ‘Urbi et Orbi’ address not as a policy speech but a pedagogical exercise, then the lack of originality makes sense.
Pope makes ‘Christmas wish’ for fraternity to overcome violence, conflict
- Dec 25, 2018
On Christmas day 2018, Pope Francis prayed that a sense of fraternity may overcome violent conflicts raging around the world.
Vatican publishes pope’s Christmas schedule
- Dec 10, 2018
Pope Francis has a full schedule of Christmastime liturgies planned for December and January, including the customary baptism of newborn babies Jan. 13, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
In Easter Urbi et Orbi, Pope prays for ‘swift end’ to bloody war in Syria
- Apr 1, 2018
In his Easter Sunday “Urbi et Orbi” address, to the city and the world, Pope Francis prayed for a swift end to the war in Syria, dialogue on the Korean Peninsula, and peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.
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