The visit Nov. 3-6 has two main goals: to speak at the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence and to encourage the predominantly expatriate Catholic and Christian communities who live and work in the Muslim-majority region.
Focus on Dialogue: Papal trip to highlight importance of opening doors
Pope names pastor in New Orleans as auxiliary bishop of Atlanta
The appointment was announced Oct. 25 in Washington by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United States.
Missouri bishop offers prayers after deadly school shooting
At least eight people were taken to the hospital with various injuries, he said, but the victims of the subsequent trauma are more than the injured and the dead. They extend to the students who escaped, officers and other first responders who saw the carnage, he said.
Thousands honor memory, social justice advocacy of Archbishop Fiorenza
“He was a man who inspired me with his humbleness and patience, with his sense of justice for the most disadvantaged,” Archbishop Fiorenza’s executive administrative assistant said.
Cries for peace can’t be ignored, pope says at interreligious meeting
The religious leaders gathered in Rome, he said, have heard the plea for peace that is “suppressed in so many areas of the world, violated by all too many acts of violence, and denied even to children and the elderly, who have not been spared the bitter sufferings of war.”
Religious workers in Cameroon freed after more than a month
In late October, less than a week after video showing kidnapped church workers in Cameroon pleading for help, they have been freed.
Pope appeals for end to fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
The war in Tigray started when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali announced military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
Rights groups: Haitian gang violence has ‘disproportionate impact’ on women
Armed gangs are terrorizing poor areas of Port-au-Prince, and cholera has made its way back to the Caribbean nation as the gangs have blocked access to the main fuel terminal, preventing hospitals and water purification plants from operating normally.