Twenty-five years ago this October, five Adorers of the Blood of Christ serving as missionaries in Liberia were slain in that west African nation’s long civil war.

“The Catholic Church and the Racial Divide in the United States: Old Wounds Reopened” and address by His Excellency The Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton Ph.D., S.T.D., Bishop of Belleville, Illinois.

Catholic and Lutheran Christians from across the globe will commemorate together on Oct. 31, the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation.