Pope: God gives hope for the future despite present-day suffering

While the world reels from terrorism, natural disasters and division, God weeps with those who suffer and offers the hope of a future full of joy and consolation, Pope Francis said. Recalling the victims of a terror attack in Barcelona on 17th August, a devastating landslide in Congo on 16th August, and “many other” tragic... Read More

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August 22, 2017

Pope leads prayers for an end to ‘inhuman violence’ of terrorism

“Let us beg the Lord, God of mercy and peace, to free the world from this inhuman violence,” Pope Francis prayed after a week of deadly terrorist attacks in Africa and Europe. Reciting the Angelus prayer at midday, the pope asked an estimated 10,000 people in St Peter’s Square to pray in silence and then... Read More

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July 5, 2017

Pope: Hunger caused by ‘indifference of many, selfishness of a few’

The international community must not remain resigned to the plight of those suffering hunger and malnutrition, which is often caused by indifference and selfishness, Pope Francis said. In a message to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation conference on 3rd July, the pope said wars, terrorism and forced displacements are not “inevitable but rather the... Read More

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June 7, 2017

Keeping our faith is best way to pull this fractured isle together

By Caroline Farrow As soon as the alert flashed on my phone on Saturday night, that a van had hit pedestrians on London Bridge, like the rest of the country, I knew instantaneously what had happened before any official confirmation had come through. One of the downsides of having permanent access to the internet and... Read More

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April 26, 2017

Twitter ‘preventing Government from monitoring terror-related content’

Twitter has blocked the Government from potential sources of counter-terrorism intelligence, according to reports. Police and security services including MI5 are said to have been cut off from some of the vast pools of data on the site. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Government had been using a third-party company to monitor activity on... Read More

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January 19, 2017

Threat in UK greater than six years ago, says terror law watchdog

Britain’s terror laws watchdog has warned that the country faces a greater threat now than when he took the post six years ago. David Anderson QC said a sense of being “over the worst” when he started in 2011 had been a “false dawn”. In an interview with the Press Association, the independent reviewer of... Read More

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January 16, 2017

Europe’s Catholic, Orthodox leaders say they’ll stand against terrorism

Catholic and Orthodox leaders have pledged to stand together against fundamentalism and terrorism, as well as resisting forces working to erode and destroy religious belief in Europe. ‘Terrorist violence against people considered unbelievers or infidels is the extreme degree of religious intolerance – we unreservedly condemn it and deplore that such acts have developed in... Read More

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December 7, 2016

Hundreds of thousands in UK benefit money used to fund terror, says Lord Carlile

Hundreds of thousands of pounds in British benefits have been used to fund terrorism in recent years, a former watchdog has claimed. Lord Carlile of Berriew, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the problem had become worse during the rise of Daesh, which gained prominence in 2014 after seizing swathes of territory in... Read More

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November 8, 2016

Fight the fear, put people first, pope tells grass-roots movements

When the search for profits outweighs all other considerations in society, money becomes a god who terrorises humanity – excluding the majority of people and causing those still well off to build walls to cower behind, Pope Francis said. “The entire social doctrine of the Church and the magisterium of my predecessors rebel against money... Read More

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October 14, 2016

Pakistani archbishop says Christians fight persecution with dialogue

Christians in Pakistan are fighting persecution and terrorism with interfaith dialogue, said the Archbishop of Lahore. Groups are being set up across Pakistan to help Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs better understand each other, Archbishop Sebastian Shaw told a meeting, hosted by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need on 11th October, that... Read More

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Pope: God gives hope for the future despite present-day suffering

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Twitter ‘preventing Government from monitoring terror-related content’

Threat in UK greater than six years ago, says terror law watchdog

Europe’s Catholic, Orthodox leaders say they’ll stand against terrorism

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