The Community of Sant Egidio has been following the situation in Sudan since the outbreak of hostilities that have caused the death of more than 10,000 civilians, 5.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 1.5 million refugees, along with the destruction
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Thousands of children from Italy and many others representing other parts of the world will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican Nov. 6 to express their hopes, dreams and questions. "It will be a meeting to show the dream we all have: to go back to having the pure sentiments of children, because the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like children," the pope had said Oct. 1 when he announced the initiative called, "Let us learn from boys and girls."
Representatives of about 40 different faiths gathered in Berlin including Christians, Jews and Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, Sikhs, Zen-Buddhists, and Zoroastrians. Religious leaders, who attended a three-day international peace conference in Berlin, have called for an end to wars and hostilities.
Pope Francis is visiting the French port city of Marseille, for centuries a multiethnic and multifaith melting pot, to amplify his call for the Mediterranean to be a place of welcome for migrants. It’s an increasingly lonely voice in Europe, where some countries are turning more and more to border fences, repatriations and talk of…