Global Church News
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Acts of Mercy: Christian Churches in North-East India offer their facilities as quarantine centres
May 25, 2020
In the ongoing battle to mitigate the hardships faced by migrants and poor due to the COVID-19 lockdown, it is indeed heartening to see Christian churches join forces with the governments of different North-East States of India by offering their facilities for quarantine purposes.
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Novena for Pentecost: Day four, Monday
May 25, 2020
Learning to love others as Christ showed us is no easy task. Sometimes it's very hard to see the goodness and beauty in them that might allow us to respond.
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Laudato Si’ Week in the midst of covid-19 pandemic
May 25, 2020
Providentially, the Laudato Si’ week has taken place in the midst of Covid-19 Pandemic. The Catholic News Service on March 3, 2020 communicated that Pope Francis asks the Catholics to join week of climate reflection, action in May.
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Bengaluru: Don Bosco Church charities help needy people during lockdown
May 25, 2020
Don Bosco Church, Lingarajapuram, in Bengaluru reached out to the needy people around the locality under the leadership of Fr. Aloysius Santiago, the parish priest and the kind-hearted parishioners during the present lockdown due to COVID-19.
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Prof. Anatolij Krasikov, narrator of Russia’s religious revival, has died
May 25, 2020
He was among the most influential personalities in the transition from the Soviet Union to federal Russia. He worked for Tass for 37 years; he was the first Soviet correspondent accredited by the Vatican Press Office. He defended religious freedom in Yeltsyn's Russia, without privileges for any confession.
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Houston Catholic church opens but closes again after five leaders get COVID-19
May 24, 2020
A Catholic church in Houston has closed its doors after five of its leaders tested positive for COVID-19, including two priests who had helped celebrate public masses which had resumed earlier this month.
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Priests accept “Salary challenge,” give up monthly salary
May 24, 2020
Most priests of Faridabad diocese in northern India have decided to give up one month salary as the nationwide lockdown has dried up church income.
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Nationwide lockdown extended fourth time
May 24, 2020
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has extended the nationwide lockdown until May 31.
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Mission is not a programme of strategies and planning
May 24, 2020
Mission, explains Pope Francis, is not the fruit of the application of “secular notions of activism or technical-professional competence,” but is born from the “overflowing joy” that “the Lord gives us,” which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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Papal academy fosters ethics, multidisciplinary alliances in AI debate
May 24, 2020
Given the huge impact technology and artificial intelligence will have on humanity and the environment, the Pontifical Academy for Life is seeking to foster more ethical and moral reflection.
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Sunday Reflection
Seventh Sunday of Easter: Between Ascension and Pentecost
This Sunday rounds out the seven Sundays of Easter, the season of the Church’s explicit celebration of the Resurrection and its meaning for Christian life.
