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Church leaders welcome move on Russian war crimes, decry abduction of children in Ukraine

Jonathan Luxmoore|Mar 28, 2023|5 Min Read

Pope Francis passes the flags of China and Hong Kong as he leaves his General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 12, 2019. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Two examples of why pope’s ‘dialogue of diplomacy’ is a gamble

Elise Ann Allen|Dec 5, 2022|5 Min Read

Pope Francis, speaking at his weekly general audience Nov. 23, 2022, prayed for peace in Ukraine and remembered the millions of Ukrainian victims of the 1932-33 Holodomor, a Soviet-engineered famine. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope remembers victims of Soviet-made famine in Ukraine, prays for peace

Catholic News Service|Nov 23, 2022|2 Min Read

Russian reservists meet at a gathering point in the course of partial mobilization of troops in Volzhsky Sept. 28, 2022. Russia's Catholic bishops said the government must recognize a right to conscientious objection and accept the "absolute impossibility" of drafting Catholic clergy. (CNS photo/Reuters)

World

Russian bishops: Nation must recognize conscientious objection to war

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 29, 2022|2 Min Read

Participants are pictured in a file photo during a protest demanding the release of political prisoners in Minsk, Belarus. Human rights groups say at least 1,260 political prisoners are currently jailed in Belarus. (CNS photo/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters)

World

Exiled Belarusian priest wants bishops to speak out for clergy

Catholic News Service|Sep 28, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis holds a Ukrainian flag as he greets the crowd before Mass in St. Peter's Square during the World Meeting of Families at the Vatican in this June 25, 2022, file photo. Meeting Jesuits in Kazakhstan in early September, the pope said too many people have taken a simplistic view of Russia's war on Ukraine. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Invasion of Ukraine was barbaric, but war is complicated, pope tells Jesuits

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2022|2 Min Read

Russian police officers detain men during an unsanctioned rally in Moscow protesting President Vladimir Putin's announced mobilization of reservists in the Russia-Ukraine war Sept. 21, 2022. (CNS photo/Reuters)

World

Russian priest says Catholics, including clerics, fear conscription

Jonathan Luxmoore|Sep 22, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, to Rome Sept. 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope: Under right conditions, nations may buy weapons for self-defense

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 15, 2022|4 Min Read

Russian political scientist and ideologue Alexander Dugin delivers a speech during a memorial service for his daughter, Darya Dugina, who was killed in a car bomb attack, in this photo taken in Moscow Aug. 23, 2022. Pope Francis spoke of Dugina as an innocent victim of war, drawing a strong response from Ukrainian officials. On Aug. 30 the Vatican said the pope's comments "should be read as a voice raised in defense of human life and the values attached to it, and not as a stance on political positions." (CNS photo/Maxim Shemetov, Reuters)

Vatican says papal remarks on Dugina defended life, were not political

Junno Arocho Esteves|Aug 30, 2022|3 Min Read

St. John Paul II (1920-2005). (Itto Ogami/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 via CNA)

Faith

George Weigel on what the Vatican can learn from JPII’s diplomacy with Russia

Courtney Mares|May 19, 2022|5 Min Read

People in Shanghai, China, attend an Easter Vigil service April 3, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Aly Song/Reuters, CNS via Crux)

World

U.S. religious freedom body highlights Nigeria, Russia in new report

John Lavenburg|Apr 28, 2022|6 Min Read

Ukrainian nurse Iryna and Russian nursing student Albina, who are friends, hold a cross at the 13th station as Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross outside the Colosseum in Rome April 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican adapts Good Friday Way of the Cross after outcry in Ukraine

Catholic News Agency|Apr 15, 2022|5 Min Read

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