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DEAR FRIAR RICK: I am a long-standing subscriber to the Messenger, and I always read your column, which offers valuable advice to your readers, with great interest.

Now, after...

May 23 2016 | by

WHEN Pope Francis met Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Cuba on February 12, some saw it as an encounter of huge spiritual significance, a sizeable step towards unity within the global Christian...

March 11 2016 | by

WITH THE countdown to the US presidential elections in November well and truly underway, there is one person who’ll be watching events unfold over the next nine months from a very particular...

February 25 2016 | by

THE STORY last October of an Indian maid who had her arm chopped off by her employer in Saudi Arabia shocked the world. Returned to India in November, after a month in a Riyadh hospital, 58-year-old...

January 07 2016 | by

DEAR FRIAR RICK: I am increasingly worried by Islamic terror. I am also deeply saddened that so many Christians are being persecuted, not only in the Middle East, but in North Korea, Somalia and...

January 07 2016 | by

SHAHBAZ Bhatti walked out of his mother’s home, stepped into a waiting car and drove away. Moments later, his mother heard the deadly thunder of an assassin’s bullets banging into the...

December 23 2015 | by

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