Pope Francis says it's 'terrible to make money from death' talking about arms trade
Pope Francis has again denounced the global arms industry, saying it is "terrible to make money from death."
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Murder of priest is not isolated, highlights violence in South Africa, say bishops
South Africa's Catholic bishops have condemned and expressed concern at a "distressing" killing after the bullet-riddled body of a priest was found in his car outside the capital of Pretoria.
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Global church communicators tackle AI in assessing their work
Communicators who worked for the World Council of Churches Assembly in 2022 met online recently and discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on their work, asserting that if they work hard, AI's obstacles can be countered.
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Muslim extremists burn down Christian homes in southern Egypt ahead of Coptic Easter
Houses belonging to local Christians were set on fire late on April 23 in Egypt's southern Minya province, the most recent of similar acts of sectarian violence against the country's religious minority.
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Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh fear Christian religious heritage is endangered
Armenians remembered the 1915 genocide on April 24, but many are concerned about their heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been held by Azerbaijan since November 2020.
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- Murder of priest is not isolated, highlights violence in South Africa, say bishops
- Pope Francis says it's 'terrible to make money from death' talking about arms trade
- Global church communicators tackle AI in assessing their work
- Knife attack in Australian church, treated as terrorism, stirs intercultural tensions
- Muslim extremists burn down Christian homes in southern Egypt ahead of Coptic Easter
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Pope Francis warns against a 'much bigger war' after Iranian attack on Israel
Pope Francis has made "a heartfelt appeal" to "stop every action that could stoke the spiral of violence and risk dragging the Middle East into a much bigger war conflict" on the morning after Iran's attack on Israel.
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World churches body critical of World Russian People's Council decree describing Ukraine conflict as 'Holy War'
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay says the WCC cannot reconcile the Decree of the XXV World Russian People's Council, whose head is the Orthodox Patriarch, and which described the conflict in Ukraine as a "Holy War."
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Churches play a key role as Colombia emerges from conflict, say peace envoys
Peace in Colombia has been a long time coming, Juan Carlos Cuéllar, representative of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), said at a World Council of Churches panel discussion titled "The things that make for peace in Colombia" on April 9.
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Religious leaders in Israel's 3rd largest city meet for multi-faith coexistence
Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Druze faiths in Haifa, recently called for coexistence in the northern Israeli city amid the tensions sparked by the war in Gaza.
