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2 days ago · Pope Francis condemned the recent killing of 14 Catholics in the African Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who reportedly were killed after they refused to convert to Islam.
3 days ago · Pope Francis condemned the recent killing of 14 Catholics in the African Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who reportedly were killed after they refused to convert to Islam.
2 days ago · 14 Catholics killed in Democratic Republic of Congo after refusing to convert to Islam. On his second day in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, Feb. 1, 2023, Pope Francis listened to the stories of victims of violence from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ridden eastern region. (Vatican Media via CNA)
2 days ago · Pope Francis condemned the recent killing of 14 Catholics in the African Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who reportedly were killed after they refused to convert to Islam. The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported that the 14 Catholics, several of them very young, were killed in North Kivu by members of the ISIS-affiliated ...
4 days ago · The pope said a spirituality of missionary communion “is the foundation of the church’s current synodal journey.”. “The call to communion implies a synodal style: walking together, listening to each other, engaging in dialogue,” he said. “This expands our hearts and fosters that universal outlook emphasised at the founding of the ...
4 days ago · VATCAN CITY -- Living out the missionary dimension of the faith never means trying to forcefully convert people to Catholicism, Pope Francis said. "The Christian mission is not transmitting some abstract truth or religious conviction, much less proselytizing -- still less," he told the national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies May 25.
5 days ago · This upsurge in baptisms of converts from Islam is part of a general trend of a sharp rise in baptisms of young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 in France, with an increase of the number of new catechumens for 2024 exceeding 30%, while it was 28% in 2023.
