Late Rwandan Catholic gospel singer awarded Havel human rights prize

Kizito Mihigo, the late Rwandan Catholic gospel singer, song writer and organist, has been honoured with Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent, an international award that celebrates bravery, creativity and artistic innovation against dictatorships. The singer, who died in a Kigali city prison in February this year under unclear circumstances, is the first posthumous... Read More

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September 18, 2020

Pope thanks elderly and ill priests for faithful and silent witness to Gospel

Pope Francis reminded elderly and ill priests that they need not be afraid of suffering because Christ is always there to help them carry that cross. With God’s grace, their situation, which was made even more difficult and risky because of the Covid-19 pandemic and strict protocols for containing its spread, can be “an experience... Read More

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September 18, 2020

Peacemaking needs interdisciplinary skill in light of Gospel, pope says

With so much conflict, violence and war, the world needs people who are specially prepared to bring Gospel values to social, political and economic situations, Pope Francis said. Multidisciplinary research and study for building up a body of knowledge on peace would be the basis for ‘forming truly valuable peace workers, ready to get involved’... Read More

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March 26, 2020

‘Gospel of life’ needed now more than ever, pope says

Defending life is not an abstract concept but a duty for all Christians and it means protecting the unborn, the poor, the sick, the unemployed and migrants, Pope Francis said. Even though humanity is living in “the age of universal human rights,” it continues to face “new threats and new slaveries” as well as legislation... Read More

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February 19, 2020

Catholic gospel singer found dead in police cell in Rwanda

A popular Catholic gospel singer was found dead in a police cell in Kigali, Rwanda, in what authorities said was a suicide. Kizito Mihigo, 38, died on 17th February, three days after he was arrested for allegedly fleeing the country to join a rebel group in neighbouring Burundi and for allegedly trying to bribe those... Read More

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August 19, 2019

Adoration and service spread fire of God’s love, says Pope Francis

In his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis told pilgrims that adoration of God and service to others spread the fire of God’s love and change the world, one heart at a time. “I invite everyone to discover the beauty of the prayer of adoration and to exercise it often,” he said. The pope focused on... Read More

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January 22, 2019

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called ‘artisan of peace’ and ‘true witness to power of Gospel’

Societies today need “artisans of peace,” like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “who can be messengers and authentic witnesses of God the Father, who wills the good and the happiness of the human family,” said the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Rev. King “was a messenger and true witness to the... Read More

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January 3, 2019

Prayer involves recognising self as God’s beloved child, pope says

Christians are not better than other people, but they do know that God is their father and they are called “to reflect a ray of his goodness in this world thirsting for goodness, waiting for good news,” Pope Francis said. Leading his first general audience of 2019, the pope continued a series of talks he... Read More

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December 21, 2018

‘Everything changes’ with Christ’s birth, pope says

The Annunciation – the Angel Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear God’s son – was such a tremendous, history-changing event that preaching about it is extremely difficult, Pope Francis said. So, when the Gospel reading for daily Mass on 20th December was St Luke’s version of the Annunciation, the pope basically devoted his... Read More

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