The Tablet May 21, 2021
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis has called on the world’s Catholics to pray May 22 for dialogue, forgiveness and peaceful coexistence in the Holy Land.
A Palestinian woman reacts after returning to her destroyed house in Gaza May 21, 2021, following the Israel-Hamas truce. The May 21 truce followed more than a week of fighting that claimed hundreds of lives. (Photo: CNS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Reuters)
As local Catholics were set to gather at St. Stephen’s Church in Jerusalem May 22 to “implore the gift of peace” on the vigil of Pentecost, the pontiff asked “all the pastors and faithful of the Catholic Church to unite themselves spiritually with this prayer.”
By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted May 21, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Nations of the world must work together to solve the key global crises of migration and climate change, which are questions of justice that can no longer be ignored, Pope Francis told diplomats.
“In the development of a global consensus capable of responding to these ethical challenges facing our human family, your work as diplomats is of paramount importance,” he said.
The pope’s comments came May 21 in a speech to new ambassadors to the Vatican from Singapore, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Barbados, Sweden, Finland and Nepal.
Speaking to the group of diplomats, the pope recognized the difficulties involved in traveling during the ongoing pandemic and thanked them for being able to attend the meeting in person.
Petition launched to show Catholic support for healthy planet, people
The Global Catholic Climate Movement has launched this petition on the website, thecatholicpetition.org, for Catholics to sign for a healthy planet, healthy people. The effort comes in advance of a meeting of global leaders this fall for two U.N. conferences one on climate change and the other on biodiversity. (CNS photo/Global Catholic Climate Movement website)
By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted May 19, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) With global leaders meeting in the fall for two critical U.N. conferences one on climate change and the other on biodiversity the Global Catholic Climate Movement is sponsoring an online petition calling on them to take action and support a healthy planet and healthy people.
Pope appeals for peace in Holy Land, says death of children ‘unacceptable’
Palestinian Suzy Eshkuntana, 6, is treated by a medic at a hospital after being pulled from the rubble of a building during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City May 16, 2021. (CNS photo/Mohammed Salem, Reuters)
By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted May 19, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) The injury and death of so many innocent people, especially children, caused by escalating violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip is “terrible and unacceptable,” putting the area at risk of sinking into “a spiral of death and destruction,” Pope Francis said.
The pope launched an appeal for calm and asked leaders of both sides “to put a stop to the roar of weapons and to follow the paths of peace, even with the help of the international community,” he said May 16 after reciting the “Regina Coeli” prayer with hundreds of people in St. Peter’s Square.
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