With the violence across North Africa and the Arab world, hundreds of lone boys from the Middle East are making their way across Europe.
Francesco Zanardi arrived at the Vatican on Oct. 10 after walking almost 350 miles to deliver a letter to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to meet Italian victims of clerical abuse.
Condemning an attack on unarmed Christians in Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI said that all its citizens and institutions must work to guarantee the rights of minorities.
In 2010, more than 1,000 priests were victims of extortion, 162 were threatened with death and two were kidnapped and killed.
France’s Catholic bishops have urged citizens to accept the fact that their country is no longer culturally homogeneous.
Commenting on elections planned for Nov. 28, the Coptic bishop of Luxor said that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood were among the most organized political groups.