Global Church News
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St Matthew
Sep 19, 2020
Matthew was a Jew who worked for the occupying Roman forces, collecting taxes from other Jews. The Romans were not scrupulous about what the “tax farmers” got for themselves.
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St Pio of Pietrelcina — Sept 23
Sep 19, 2020
Born Francesco Forgione, Padre Pio grew up in a family of farmers in southern Italy. Twice his father worked in Jamaica, New York, to provide the family income.
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Sts Cosmas and Damian
Sep 19, 2020
Little is known of the lives of these two saints except that they suffered martyrdom in Syria during the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian.
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Two Canadian bishops disavow priest’s prophecies
Sep 19, 2020
Two Canadian dioceses have disavowed the messages and prophecies of a Canadian priest known for prophesying doom.
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Pregnant women, babies die in Christian-majority Indian state
Sep 19, 2020
Hundreds of newborn babies and scores of pregnant women have died in a Christian-majority state in northeastern India as COVID-19 cases continue to increase.
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How a papal handshake became an ‘extraordinary turning point’ for LGBT activists
Sep 18, 2020
L'Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference, reported yesterday that Pope Francis "at the end of an audience" greeted a group of some 40 people, some of whom identify as LGBT, along with their parents.
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China and the Vatican - What if the US recognizes Taiwan?
Sep 18, 2020
Officials in Rome and Beijing are now confidently predicting an extension to the 2018 Vatican-China deal, despite continued persecution of Catholics in the country and little visible progress on the appointment of bishops.
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Mindong: Fr. Liu released, But in Zhengding the bishop has been kidnapped for over a month
Sep 18, 2020
The 46-year-old priest returned home yesterday at 6.30pm. Msgr.Julius Jia Zhiguo was taken from his residence last August 15.
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Caritas Internationalis helping Lebanon get back on its feet
Sep 18, 2020
As Lebanese politicians struggle to form a new government, the Secretary-General of Caritas Internationalis is on the ground in Beirut to bring the solidarity of the Church and organize relief efforts.
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First edition of the Bible now available in Pazande
Sep 18, 2020
The Bible is now available for the first time in the Pazande language spoken in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.
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Sunday Reflection
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Justice and Mercy
Human Resources would not have been happy with that landowner. Sometimes, it seems that Human Resources does not want to come out on the side of generosity. I remember a time that we wanted to pay an employee extra for work on a particular project. We were told that we could not do this unless we re-adjusted that employee’s pay scale for all his work.
