The Jesuit Refugee Service in Rome confirms that on Monday afternoon its country director Alexis Prem Kumar S J was abducted by a group of unidentified men in western Afghanistan We are deeply shocked by Prem s abduction We are in contact with all the relevant authorities and doing everyth

This is from our file on quot news that is generating a lot of speculation but we don 39 t know what to make of it mdash yet quot nbsp In an interview with AsiaNews nbsp the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople nbsp Bartholomew I nbsp nonchalantly noted nbsp that we meaning himself and Pope

U.S. Bishops Urge Action On Carbon Pollution To Stem Climate Change

The news out of the Central African Republic in recent days has been just awful Yesterday widespread disorder nbsp broke out in the capital Bangui barricades were thrown up around Chrisitan and Muslim quarters and two protestors were killed by African Union peacekeepers The demonstrations began i

Defends "soft power" alternatives and multilateral approach to conflict resolution

Green doors and green porch trim mark the small shops that are—or were—owned by Muslims in the Point Kilometer 5 quarter of Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic. Many of them are open this morning in early May—more as you cruise closer to the city’s centra

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis celebrated and extended the outreach of their predecessors Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras yesterday Meeting at the Apostolic Delegation in the Old City of Jerusalem the contemporary heads of the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic ch

Does travel insurance cover diplomatic faux pas Let rsquo s hope the Vatican has invested in the deluxe package for Pope Francis He begins tomorrow a whirlwind visit to the Holy Land that he insists is NOT political but personal and religious so naturally his every gesture will be mdash has alrea

On World Hunger Day, seeking to break the cycle of violence and crop shortages in the Central African Republic.

ldquo The general security situation in this country is awful rdquo says Msgr Nestor-D sir Nongo-Aziagbia bishop of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic ldquo Terrible rdquo he adds shaking his head sadly nbsp Behind him across the grounds of the archbishop rsquo s residence in Ba