Twitter hashtag brings solidarity

Group ‘does not represent Islam’

Factions agree important first step

Christian’s ordeal ends with papal meeting

Final document completed

A member of the Vatican Observatory has been honoured for his “outstanding” work in astronomy Jesuit Br Guy Consolmagno, who is also the curator of the Vatican’s meteorite collection has been named a recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal, bestowed by the American Astronomical Society, which cited the Jesuit’s “outstanding communication by an active planetary…

“Stop. I am asking you with all my heart, stop.” This was the Pope’s heartfelt plea to the warring sides in the Gaza conflict on July 27. Setting aside his prepared Sunday Angelus script to pray for those caught up in conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and Iraq, the Pontiff insisted that “all is…

“It would be so right if the commanders of all missile systems that were in the crash area on July 17 told the whole truth about what they did and saw, if they said it to everyone, to God and people!" Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Russian Orthodox Churcjh’s Synodal department for Relations between…

Community devastated by casualties

A Limerick city community has pulled together in an act of solidarity to clean up their parish church following an act of vandalism last week.  The local community was left in shock when vandals threw large cans of different coloured paint at the main door of Our Lady of Lourdes church and a statue of…