Faith Shared: Churches asked to share pulpits with Muslims
Religious and human rights activists are asking U.S. churches to invite Jewish and Muslim clergy to their sanctuaries to read from sacred texts next month in an initiative designed to counter anti-Muslim bigotry. The June 26 initiative, called “Faith Shared: Uniting in Prayer and Understanding,” is co-sponsored by the...
American Missionary Sister in the Sudan, Africa
Sister Cathy Arata began directing Solidarity’s Pastoral Services in March 2010 after having been selected unanimously for the position by the Solidarity’s Governing Board. Sister Cathy, a School Sister of Notre Dame (SSND), hails from New Jersey and Maryland. A former missionary in El Salvador, Sister Cathy has a...
The Church Must Not Renounce Her Missionary Role
Fr. Luigi Brioni, who has been living and working in Sierra Leone many yearss,shares God’s Word with the people in West Africa. At midday today the Holy Father received the participants in the General Assembly of the Pontifical Missionary Works, which reports to the Congregation for the Evangelisation of...
9/11: The Conversation We Never Had
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player As we approach the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, faith leaders reflect on the challenge of living with the deep ideological and religious differences that persist in our multi-denomination society. “You can’t have healing unless you have dialogue and unless you have engagement,” says Bishop...
New Website to Focus on the Canonization of the Founder of the Xaverian Missionaries
The Xaverian Missionaries of the USA Region is premiering a new website which will focus on coming to know our founder, Saint Guido Conforti and the inspiration he is as we learn how to embrace, with the compassion of Christ, a multicultural and multireligious world in the 21st Century....
BANGLADESH: Army officer’s father threatens to destroy home and establishments of a human rights defender’s family
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding death threat to the family of F. M. A. Razzak, a human rights defender, and his well-wishers from the relatives of an officer the Bangladesh Army regarding an illegitimate claim of ownership of a land, which had...
BANGLADESH: Army officer's father threatens to destroy home and establishments of a human rights defender's family
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding death threat to the family of F. M. A. Razzak, a human rights defender, and his well-wishers from the relatives of an officer the Bangladesh Army regarding an illegitimate claim of ownership of a land, which had...
A Circle of Protection
We want to share with you an important breakthrough in our common work to protect those who are poor and vulnerable at home and abroad in the ongoing budget process. The Conference of Catholic Bishops has led an effort to build a common voice within the Christian communities to...
‘Underground’ bishop of Luoyang dies
Bishop Peter Li Hongye of Luoyang died shortly after suffering a heart attack while presiding over the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, April 23. “The heart attack came suddenly when Bishop Li was blessing the holy water for baptism. The ambulance corps refused to rush him to hospital as...
Good Friday in Paterson, New Jersey
Close to our Provincial House in Wayne, New Jersey, Paterson is the Diocese to which we belong. From the Cathedral of the Diocese, St. John the Baptist, this video portrays the living way of the cross of the parish, which is predominately hispanic....