In focus: Pope helps to facilitate prisoner exchanges, Kenyan drought at ‘crisis level,’ nonprofit wins $1 million humanitarian award
Nation/World news briefs: Nov. 14, 2022
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.
Pope praises projects to recycle objects, reintegrate people into society
Pope Francis and his guests listened as a violinist played a tune from a famous Italian composer on a multicolored violin made by prisoners using the wood of a shipwrecked migrants’ boat.
Video looks at religion’s redemptive role on imprisoned gang members
While researching a video project on gangs in El Salvador in 2015, freelance journalist Danny Gold stopped to talk to a guard who told him how a prison group with little to look forward to had found a positive path forward in life — and it involved religion.
Jesus does not give up on anyone, pope tells prisoners
Before washing the feet of 12 prisoners at the celebration of the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 29, Pope Francis told them and hundreds of inmates to remember that Jesus constantly stands before them with love, ready to cleanse their sins and forgive them.
Pope tells Mexican prisoners society needs system of ‘social health’
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (CNS) — Pope Francis urged society to rethink its ideas of locking up inmates and throwing away the key, calling such an approach […]