Category Archives: terrorist attacks

Cardinal Nichols calls for ‘prayer, solidarity & calm’ after Westminster terrorist attack

Posted on March 23, 2017 by catholicvoicesmedia

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who is Archbishop of Westminster and president of the bishops’ conference of England and Wales, said this morning: Yesterday’s attacks in Westminster have shocked us all. The kind of violence we have seen all too often in … Continue reading →

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Francis declares martyred priest a ‘blessed’, calls Islamist murder ‘satanic’

Posted on September 14, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

[Austen Ivereigh] Pope Francis this morning declared that the elderly French priest murdered at the altar by young men claiming allegiance to the Islamic State was a martyr who had undergone a “satanic” persecution. He also said that Father Jacques Hamel’s picture … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis’s six-fold response to jihadist terror

Posted on August 5, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

[Austen Ivereigh] It is clear that the Islamic world is in a major crisis over the relationship of religion to politics, one comparable, in its way, to the European Wars of Religion in the seventeenth century that were eventually resolved … Continue reading →

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Burying Fr Hamel, archbishop asks: ‘Can the world still wait for the chain of love which will replace the chain of hate?’

Posted on August 3, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

The funeral yesterday of Fr Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest slain last week while saying Mass in his Normandy church, was attended by close to 2,000 in Rouen cathedral yesterday, among them around 100 Muslims. Hanging in the entrance was a painting … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis’s ‘prayer for protection from terrorism’

Posted on July 30, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

This afternoon at 6:00 p.m., en route to Campus Misericordiae for the World Youth Day Prayer Vigil with young people from around the world, Pope Francis made a brief visit to the Church of St. Francis directly opposite the Archbishop’s residence, … Continue reading →

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Bishops counter Rouen murder with promise to build ‘civilization of love’

Posted on July 27, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

[Austen Ivereigh] Catholic church leaders have reacted to the slaying by Islamists of an elderly French priest yesterday morning with a call to resist feelings of vengeance and hatred and to help build a civilization of love. The peculiar horror … Continue reading →

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The Pope on Nice: ‘The pain of the massacre is alive in our hearts’

Posted on July 18, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

Remembering the loss of innocent lives in Nice, many of whom were children, the Pope yesterday said “the pain of the massacre is alive in our hearts”. Speaking at Sunday’s Angelus, he said he was “close to each family and the … Continue reading →

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Francis deplores ‘cowardly and senseless’ massacre of Lahore Christians

Posted on March 29, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

Deploring what he called yesterday “a cowardly and senseless crime”, Pope Francis yesterday appealed to the civil authorities in Pakistan to protect vulnerable religious minorities following the deaths of 72 mostly Christians in an Easter Day suicide attack on a park … Continue reading →

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Bishops on Brussels bombings

Posted on March 22, 2016 by catholicvoicesmedia

Belgian bishops: The bishops of Belgium are appalled to learn of the attack at Zaventem airport and in the center of Brussels. They share the anguish of thousands of travelers and their families, aviation professionals and the first responders who … Continue reading →

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