violence

“I wonder if those of us who work in news media, where ‘if it bleeds it leads’ is understood, might help balance all the dreadful shots of human misery by promoting a larger awareness of the human mercies that sometimes follow.”

In its annual report on pastoral workers killed, Fides, the news agency of the Pontifical Mission Societies, listed eight priests and five laymen. Six were killed in Africa, five in Central or South America, and two were killed in Europe.

In African countries, however, the medical conditions associated with albinism do not pose the biggest risk.

The theme this year was “Voices of peace in a world at war,” and several dicasteries of the Roman Curia formulated the prayers and meditations drawing from what Pope Francis has heard from people suffering from a lack of peace during his apostolic journeys and on other occasions.

There are some positive signs of the hard work Catholic authorities are making to try to see a better future in Iraq, as one of the country’s rich mosaic of religious and ethnic minorities.

The violence of school shootings “is perhaps one of the greatest forms of injustice that we routinely witness in our country.

The U.S. Justice Department revealed on March 8 it is investigating the Memphis Police Department and specialized police units across the U.S., following Nichols’ brutal death.

The desecrated face of a statue of the crucified Christ in a Jerusalem church should move Catholics around the world “to recognize the pain of so many of our brothers and sisters” in the Holy Land, who have experienced the tragedy of violence and natural disasters, said a top Vatican official.