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September 2012

September 16, 2012

In Lebanon, Pope calls for end to Syria conflict

Beirut, Lebanon, Sep 16, 2012 / 12:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has placed...

September 16, 2012

Pope asks Christians to be servants of peace

Beirut, Lebanon, Sep 16, 2012 / 11:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI told an...

September 15, 2012

Pope calls Lebanese youth to ‘revolution of love’

Beirut, Lebanon, Sep 15, 2012 / 04:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has challenged...

September 15, 2012

Pope encourages culture of peace in Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon, Sep 15, 2012 / 12:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a speech to Lebanese...

September 14, 2012

Benedict XVI: fundamentalism a ‘falsification’ of religion

Aboard the papal plane, Sep 14, 2012 / 05:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict described...

September 14, 2012

Pope signs momentous document on Church in the Middle East

Beirut, Lebanon, Sep 14, 2012 / 02:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has signed...

September 14, 2012

Pope Benedict arrives in Lebanon as ‘pilgrim of peace’

Beirut, Lebanon, Sep 14, 2012 / 08:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI says he...

September 10, 2012

Pakistani teen released on bail in blasphemy case

Islamabad, Pakistan, Sep 10, 2012 / 01:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A 14-year-old Christian girl with...

September 09, 2012

Caritas increases aid as refugees flood out of Syria

Rome, Italy, Sep 9, 2012 / 04:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Caritas Internationalis is ramping up...

September 07, 2012

Iraqi archbishop: make Christian survival focus of papal meeting

Kirkuk, Iraq, Sep 7, 2012 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Iraqi Archbishop Louis Sako of...

September 07, 2012

Pope calls on lay Africans to evangelize their continent

Vatican City, Sep 7, 2012 / 02:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has called...

September 06, 2012

Exiled Jesuit priest still hopeful for Syria’s future

Rome, Italy, Sep 6, 2012 / 01:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Italian Jesuit who was...

September 05, 2012

Vandals hit Catholic monastery in Holy Land with fire and graffiti

Jerusalem, Israel, Sep 5, 2012 / 03:44 pm (CNA).- Vandals set fire to the door...

September 05, 2012

Imam allegedly faked evidence in Pakistan blasphemy case

Islamabad, Pakistan, Sep 5, 2012 / 02:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Several witnesses have charged that...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Thousands of Christians trapped in Syrian village

Damascus, Syria, Aug 25, 2012 / 04:38 pm (CNA).- Syrian rebel forces have trapped over...

August 23, 2012

Pope to proceed with Lebanon trip despite Syria violence

Rome, Italy, Aug 23, 2012 / 02:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As fighting in neighboring Syria...

August 21, 2012

Mentally impaired child arrested under Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy law

Islamabad, Pakistan, Aug 21, 2012 / 03:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A young girl who suffers...

August 19, 2012

Maronite patriarch warns Syrian conflict could spread to Lebanon

Antioch, Turkey, Aug 19, 2012 / 05:04 pm (CNA).- Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai of Antioch,...

August 14, 2012

Catholic vicariate moves from Kuwait to Bahrain

Awali, Bahrain, Aug 14, 2012 / 01:56 am (CNA).- The Catholic Church’s Vicariate of Northern...

August 10, 2012

Church leaders urge Egyptian troops to rescue Sinai hostages

Jerusalem, Israel, Aug 10, 2012 / 12:07 am (CNA).- “Dramatic changes” in the Sinai peninsula...

August 07, 2012

Christian community in Nigeria rocked by new wave of attacks

Abuja, Nigeria, Aug 7, 2012 / 05:32 pm (CNA).- Nigerian Christians are losing patience after...

August 03, 2012

Syrian Christians begin traditional fast amid continuing violence

Damascus, Syria, Aug 3, 2012 / 05:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The head of the Melkite...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Islamists attack Christians, Iraqi refugees in Damascus

Damascus, Syria, Jul 23, 2012 / 04:50 pm (CNA).- The Syrian rebels’ attack on Damascus...

July 19, 2012

Syrian archbishop laments continued violence

Damascus, Syria, Jul 19, 2012 / 12:06 am (CNA).- Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus...

July 16, 2012

Gold coins from the Crusades found in Israel

Tel Aviv, Israel, Jul 16, 2012 / 04:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Israeli archeologists have found...

July 14, 2012

Franciscans in Syria call for dialogue not weapons

Damascus, Syria, Jul 14, 2012 / 05:28 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Franciscans in Syria are...

July 13, 2012

Interim leader of Egyptian Catholic Copts is hopeful after election

Cairo, Egypt, Jul 13, 2012 / 02:16 am (CNA).- Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos William has...

July 10, 2012

Nigerian archbishop hopes for definitive end to violence

Jos, Nigeria, Jul 9, 2012 / 08:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama is...

July 08, 2012

Catholics providing Syrian refugees with medical treatment

Baltimore, Md., Jul 8, 2012 / 04:56 pm (CNA).- It was the end of March...

July 05, 2012

Holocaust museum praised for corrections to Pius XII exhibit

Jerusalem, Israel, Jul 5, 2012 / 03:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial...