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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
As war ravages Ukraine, the country cannot be divided among religious confessions but must be united behind “mother Ukraine,” Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Synodality, World News
Pope Francis did not need to launch listening sessions for the Synod of Bishops for people to discover there are tensions in the Catholic Church, said the cardinal serving as the synod’s relator general.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Interreligious dialogue can combat climate change by tapping into the “profound richness” of faith traditions to promote a sense of “ecological responsibility” and conversion, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News
In trying to help people understand how belief in God is a natural part of life and provides grounding for the values that protect human dignity and peaceful coexistence, the late Pope Benedict XVI saw Jews and Muslims as natural allies.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, Local News, News
More than 600 people from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist faith traditions annually pack the city’s Jesuit church, St. Ignatius, to offer prayers for the city and civic leaders.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Expressing his desire to bear witness to “the truth,” Pope Francis is returning three marble fragments that were originally from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, according to the Vatican.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Decrying what he described as “hostile times” when antisemitism and violence against Christians are on the rise, Pope Francis said a renewed commitment to Catholic-Jewish dialogue is needed.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News
Meeting with a delegation from the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the pope supported their proposal to launch a series of educational programs aimed at helping Christians and Jews in Latin America tap into their common spiritual heritage to become “agents of social change.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Bishops, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News
Members of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs urged Christians to decry hate-filled statements and violence aimed at Jewish individuals, homes and institutions.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
While formal dialogue about the theological and historical causes of the splits in Christianity are essential, so, too, is a recognition that “sinful actions and attitudes” have contributed and continue to contribute to divisions in the body of Christ, Pope Francis said.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Christians and Jews are called to give witness to their faith by “working to make the world more fraternal, combating forms of inequality and promoting greater justice,” Pope Francis told members of the World Jewish Congress.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Meeting the U.S.-born patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Pope Francis expressed his hope that Christians of the East and West could finally agree on a common date for celebrating Easter.
