Davos: How Will This Crisis Change Us?

In a plenary session titled “The Values behind Market Capitalism” yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I started with this observation: Every morning when I wake up in Davos, I turn on my television to CNN in my hotel room. And every morning, there is the...

St Paul and Ecumenism

As we approach the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Bishop John Arnold asks us to remember and be encouraged by the diversity that was a feature even of the early Church. What challenges were faced by the different Christian communities that Saint Paul wrote to?...

Love for Jesus brings Christians and Muslims Together

“Behold! The angels said: ‘O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and in (the company of) those nearest to God.'” Before searching for this quote...

Hungry for Food, Hungry for Justice

Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales gives food to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo and around 40 farmers after they ended Thursday their hunger strike in front of the House of Representatives in Quezon City following an appeal from Cardinal Rosales. Catholic bishops and farmers ended their hunger strike in...

Voices in the War in the Congo

Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war raging in eastern Congo in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. For more than a...

Healing and Hope from the Ashes of War

“I just think it’s time to let go, you know? Forgive them,” says Mariatu Kamara, 22, of the child soldiers who hacked off her hands in Sierra Leone 10 years ago. Kamara starts at George Brown College in Toronto and her new book, The Bite of the Mango, soon...
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