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Helping others realise their potential is good business, Pope tells billionaires

Richard Branson and other business leaders met in Rome for the Fortune-Time Global Forum

Archbishops from Syria and Iraq blocked from visiting the UK

The bishops were refused entry due to fears that they might not return home

Madeleine Teahan

Four cardinals have taken the 'correct road', says leading German philosopher

Robert Spaemann, a friend of Benedict XVI, said the cardinals had chosen the right course and wishes more would join them

Orthodox patriarch says Amoris Laetitia is about God's mercy

'First and foremost the apostolic exhortation recalls the mercy and compassion of God,' the patriarch wrote

Syriac Catholic patriarch 'horrified' after seeing Iraqi 'ghost towns'

Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan visited beleaguered Christians in northern Iraq last month

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We’re starting to care about unborn animals. Let’s take the next logical step

The 'it's just a clump of cells' argument, while repeatedly applied to humans, has not yet been mentioned in the bovine debate

Alexandra Tompson

Anti-Christian violence is now too common to attract the headlines

A mob attacked Christian homes in Egypt merely because of a rumour that a church might be built

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

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