ANNABA, Algeria (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV offered Mass April 14 at the basilica built near the site where St. Augustine died nearly 1,600 years ago, making a deeply personal …
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Archbishop Nkea highlighted a rare sense of shared expectation across divisions, with diaspora communities, political figures and even separatist fighters.
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“It’s important for us to get the message out that Western Christianity is fundamentally African, in the way that Eastern Christianity is fundamentally Greek.”
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A Vatican spokesman described the ambitious trip as “one of the longest stretches of time that the pope has been outside the Vatican.”
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) – A Catholic bishop in South Sudan says his people are living a real-life Way of the Cross, marked by suffering, violence and deep wounds. Bishop …
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New US global health policy seen as a way to eliminate malaria in concert with faith leaders
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“But the Catholic Church talks to people from all denominations and faiths — and links of friendship and joint action should continue.”
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Catholic bishops in Sudan and South Sudan have expressed distress at the brutal killing of nearly 178 people in northern South Sudan on March 2.
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Algeria is a country with a small Christian community, but one that is “joyful in living fraternally with all the people of this country.”
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Condolences have continued to pour in for the prominent prelate, considered a leading spiritual, moral and national voice in the East African country.
