COMECE bishops call on Europe to be force for peace amid global conflicts

EU bishops in Cyprus echo Pope Leo XIV: ‘Let those who have weapons lay them down’

From Maronite villages in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus, EU bishops echoed Pope Leo XIV’s plea to lay down arms in the Holy Land and pledged to support the Maronite cause in Brussels. [...]

COMECE bishops call on Europe to be force for peace amid global conflicts

Meeting in Cyprus for their Spring Plenary Assembly, the bishops of the European Union call for renewed diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to end ...

EU bishops, in Cyprus, echo Pope Leo XIV: ‘Lay down weapons’

Catholic bishops of the European Union closed their spring plenary in Cyprus with an urgent appeal for peace in the Middle East and a public gesture of solidarity with the islandʼs Maronite Christians, whose villages and churches lie in the north of the island, under Turkish military control since 1974.Meeting in Nicosia from April 22–24 under the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU, delegates of the Commission of the Bishops' Conference…