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“We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating and using nuclear weapons.”

“It was through his faith that he was able to live the tragedy of the atomic destruction to the truth of its very meaning.”

“Never have we ever faced such a charge (of forceful religious conversion) in our history,” said the mother superior of the Assisi Sisters.

Father Kolbe encouraged the Japanese friars to remain faithful to their mission despite wartime hardships, placing all in Mary’s hands.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts — several U.S. Catholic bishops …

“God is so kind, so good,” he said of his faith experience, adding that he felt he had to “repay” God’s goodness.

In Bangladesh, grief and shock gripped the capital, Dhaka, after a military jet crashed into Milestone School and College on July 21, killing at least 31 and injuring more than …

A court affiliated with Myanmar’s exiled government has sentenced nine men to 20 years in prison for the killing of a Catholic priest in the country’s conflict-torn Sagaing region earlier …

The Vatican has ended its direct pontifical oversight of an Indian archdiocese after settling the long-standing liturgy dispute in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

The Dalai Lama once remarked that he shared a bond with St. John Paul II because both understood totalitarian communism’s harmful effects on religion.