Pope Francis and the Holy See continue to raise awareness of the brutal persecution taking place in northern Iraq, and to pressure the international community to take action in defense of the nation's Christians and other religious minorities.
Prayer is like deciding to use both hands to tie your shoe. It is the conversation that happens before, during, and after everything great and small that we do. Prayer doesn't make things happen. Prayer makes things possible.
On airplanes, I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I am a minister and wants to use the flight time to explain to me that he is "spiritual but not religious."