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by bcadmin | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, inter-faith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, News Analysis, Russian Orthodox Church, Xi Jinping | 0 |
Embracing the ecumenical movement has strengthened the moral authority of popes considerably, but also made them more vulnerable to pressures they can’t directly control.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Kazakhstan, lead, News, papal interview, Papal plane, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
On his return flight from Kazakhstan, Pope Francis said that when it comes to China and issues such as the current trial against Cardinal Joseph Zen, the church is playing the long game of patience and dialogue.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, inter-faith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, peace, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Pope Francis highlighted a passage of the final declaration of a Kazakhstan inter-faith congress which urges world leaders “to put an end to conflicts and bloodshed everywhere, and to abandon aggressive and destructive rhetoric.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis | 0 |
On Pope Francis’s last day in Kazakhstan, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a longtime public critic of the pontiff, said he sees it as both his duty and an act of fraternal love to speak out when he believes the faithful are in “danger” of confusion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Catholic Church, Catholic minorities, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis | 0 |
On his final day in Kazakhstan, Pope Francis met with bishops, priests, and religious in the country, offering words of encouragement and urging greater space be made for the participation of laity in the life of the church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Catholic-Muslim relations, Islam, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis Wednesday celebrated Mass for Kazakhstan’s small minority population, where he lamented the war in Ukraine and said dialogue is the only way to achieve peace
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
One of the Russian Orthodox Church’s top-ranking clerics has said Pope Francis’s remark earlier this year that their patriarch shouldn’t be a government “altar boy” hurt efforts toward building Christian unity.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Associated Press, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Vatican-China, Xi Jinping | 0 |
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip overseas since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic will overlap with a visit by Pope Francis to Kazakhstan, although the Vatican says there are no plans for them to meet.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Ecumenism, Interfaith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
On his second full day in Nur-Sultan, Pope Francis told a high-profile congress of religious leaders that the world is looking to them for guidance amid the many challenges humanity faces, especially that of peace.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Church in Asia, democracy, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Pope Francis arrived in Kazakhstan Tuesday condemning the war in neighboring Ukraine and telling Kazakh leaders that given the country’s location and diverse ethnic and religious composition, it plays a unique role in promoting peace in the region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Associated Press, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis | 0 |
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Holy See’s strained relations with China are the backdrop to Pope Francis’s visit this week to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Associated Press, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis had hoped his trip to Kazakhstan this week would offer a chance to meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church — who has justified the war in Ukraine — and plead for peace. Patriarch Kirill bowed out a few weeks ago.
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