Vatican City: Pope Francis said today that the doors of Catholic churches around the world must remain open, despite increased security fears in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. “Please, no armoured doors in the Church, everything open,” the 78-year-old pontiff told pilgrims in St Peter’s square, Italy’s AGI newsContinue Reading
“You will not have my hatred”, writes a Parisian man to the terrorists who killed his wife in the attacks on Paris last week. Antoine Leiris’ wife was killed in the massacre at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on Friday night, where 88 other people were also killed while attendingContinue Reading
Mumbai: Friday’s carnage in Paris cast a shadow over the ongoing Eucharistic Congress in Goregaon as well. Archbishop Oswald Cardinal Gracias, of of Bombay led the 850 delegates in observing a few moments of silence to pray for the victims who perished in the serial attacks. Later in the evening,Continue Reading
Friday’s terror attacks in France were “not human,” according to Pope Francis, who said he was “moved and saddened” by the attacks. Francis, however, confessed that “I don’t understand these things. They are difficult to understand, carried out by human beings.” The pope, speaking in a heavy and measured voice,Continue Reading
Paris: Three teams of extremists carried out the coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks across Paris that left 129 people dead and 352 injured, a French prosecutor said on Saturday. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said 99 of the injured were in critical condition after the “act of barbarism.” He said the attackersContinue Reading