'IN SPITE OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, IN SPITE OF DIFFERENT BELIEFS — WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS' Pope Leo XIV set off on the trip as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, leaving Rome for Turkey, where he made appeals for peace throughout the world and urge unity among long-divided Christian churches. "With the presence of myself, of the Church, of believers, in both Turkey and in Lebanon, we hope to also announce, transmit, proclaim how important peace is throughout the world and to invi

On January 20, 1962, Thomas Joseph Mboya, Kenya’s charismatic trade-unionist and rising political star, married Pamela Odede in a grand ceremony at St. Peter Claver’s Catholic Church in Nairobi. The event was widely hailed as the “wedding of the year,” drawing a glittering cross-section of East African and colonial society. The Nuptial Mass was celebrated by Archbishop J. J. McCarthy of Nairobi before an audience of over a thousand guests. Among those present were Jomo Kenyatta, Jaramogi Oginga