Government licenses and German arms exports had risen 96 percent in 2015 to a value of $13.6 billion, a priest said.

Syrian TV showed live footage of a long convoy of ambulances and green buses driving out of Aleppo.

"We are united in the blood of our martyrs," Pope Francis said.

“Violence is not the cure for our broken world,” the pope writes.

“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”

These are the opening words of the front-page editorial of The Catholic Herald published four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.