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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Pope Francis, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Vatican |
Pope Francis visited the Vatican’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Good Friday as volunteer doctors, nurses and pharmacists continued vaccinating the poor, homeless and refugees assisted by charities in Rome.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, France, News, Paris |
The rector of Notre Dame said Friday that the burned-out Paris cathedral and its esplanade could remain a building site for another “15 or 20 years.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Good Friday, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News |
In Lebanon, Christians marked Good Friday with subdued masses in near empty churches and heavy rain as they geared up for a second Easter in a row under strict lockdown.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Cabo Delgado, Church in Africa, Islamic State, Mozambique, News |
With more than a week of fierce fighting including beheaded bodies in the streets, the battle for the northern Mozambique town of Palma has highlighted the southern Africa country’s insurgency and threats to its multibillion-dollar investments.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, COVID-19 pandemic, Good Friday, Lockdowns, News, Philippines |
Filipinos marked Good Friday, one of the most solemn holidays in Asia’s largest Catholic nation, with deserted streets and churches following a strict lockdown to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.
Read MoreVatican City, Apr 2, 2021 / 11:10 am (CNA).- Politics turned into ideologies have wounded fraternity in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap., said at the Vatican’s Passion of the Lord liturgy on Good Friday.“I believe that we al…
Read MoreVatican City, Apr 2, 2021 / 11:10 am (CNA).- Politics turned into ideologies have wounded fraternity in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap., said at the Vatican’s Passion of the Lord liturgy on Good Friday.“I believe that we al…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | News, News Briefs, Pope John Paul II, Vatican |
Denver Newsroom, Apr 2, 2021 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Pope St. John Paul II— who would have turned 100 years old May 18— was a man of great humility, whose nearly 27-year pontificate nevertheless left […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Analysis, China, Communism, Features, Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee, News |
The news was expected, but that did not make it any less wrenching: newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, veteran democracy activist Martin Lee, and other brave defenders of human rights were convicted in Hong Kong on […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Biblical Exposition, Holidays/Feast Days, News |
A bunch of international young people asked me to share with them the story of Holy Thursday and Good Friday – to take them on a virtual, biblical, typological and geographical tour.
Read MoreAfter 10 years of war, in the midst of complete economic collapse, Caritas Syria, with the backing of Caritas Internationalis, is asking for an end to sanctions put in place to punish the Assad regime for chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians, w…
Read MorePope Francis celebrated the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the chapel of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who resigned in September. Members of the Focolare movement were also present, according to an Italian Vatican News report. (Cardin…
Read MoreCNA Staff, Apr 2, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).- Days before Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, Vatican television cameras captured extraordinary footage of the Polish pope. He was sitting alone facing the altar of his private chapel. Beneath the cru…
Read MoreCardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, was the principal celebrant of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday evening in St. Peter’s Basilica (video).
Read MorePope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar signed the Document on Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi in 2019. Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, secretary-general of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, has written “The Pope and the Grand Imam: A Thorny…
Read MoreFather José María Di Paola, an Argentine priest known for his outreach to the poor, collected messages of congratulations to the Pope for the eighth anniversary of his pontificate. Pope Francis expressed his gratitude in a six-minute Spanish…
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