Pope Francis, Catholic Church Key To Climate Change Effort
They believe the next big step is to mobilise the people with the help of the Vatican and other religious organisations. This may hopefully lead to a collective action against the effects of climate change for the sake of environment and humanity.
Pope Francis tells Muslims to help stop ISIS in speech to religious leaders in Albania
Last month, the Vatican’s Muslim relations office issued a statement condemning ISIS’ atrocities and calling on religious leaders, particularly Muslims, to use their influence to stop them. The extremists’ advance is of particular concern to the ...
Pope says religion can’t justify violence
Land of martyrs' Yellow-and-white Vatican flags flew alongside Albanian ones in Tirana's main streets while vast portraits of Catholic priests and nuns persecuted under Communism -- when Albania became the world's first atheist state -- were strung across ...
Muslims and Christians throng Albania streets to greet Pope
TIRANA: Christians and Muslims thronged the Albanian capital yesterday to greet Pope Francis who arrived in the mainly Muslim country for a one-day visit to praise it as a model of religious harmony. The pontiff’s plane landed at Tirana’s Mother Teresa airport at 0700 GMT, where Prime Minister Edi R ...
Pope Francis appoints panel to streamline annulments
Pope Francis has appointed a group of theologians and canon lawyers to study ways to make the annulment of Catholic marriages – often a complicated and lengthy task – simpler, the Vatican announced.
ALBANIA - VATICAN - Pope tells representatives of religions that religious freedom is bulwark against all forms of totalitarianism
Pope Francis met with Muslims, Bektashi (Sufi), Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical and Jewish representatives, advocating working together for the common good and dialogue. The latter should not be centre on relativism, but on retaining one's own identity, without hypocrisy.
