Global Church News
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Cardinal Filoni in Sri Lanka with Pope’s solidarity for attack victims
May 23, 2019
Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, is on a 3-day visit to the Church in Sri Lanka, May 22-24, to bring the solidarity and closeness of Pope Francis to the Christian community, recovering after the Easter Sunday attacks.
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Pope’s Marian pilgrimage to Transylvania shines light on ethnic Hungarians
May 22, 2019
When Pope Francis visits Romania May 31-June 1, he will helicopter to Sumuleu Ciuc, site of the country’s only major Marian shrine and an important place of pilgrimage for Hungarian Catholics.
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Vincent Lambert: French court orders life support to resume
May 22, 2019
While a court order in France reverses procedures to stop feeding and hydrating Vincent Lambert, in the Vatican Pope Francis reaffirms that life is “God’s gift, from its beginning until its natural end”.
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El Salvador lays to rest another priest presumably assassinated by gangs
May 22, 2019
Thousands attended the May 20 funeral of a Salvadoran priest found by his parishioners in what some presume is a gang killing.
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Former Jerusalem patriarch: Time to move away from war
May 22, 2019
Appealing to Israel and the United States, Archbishop Michel Sabbah, retired Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, said it was time to move away from war.
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Christian graves desecrated in Pakistan
May 22, 2019
Catechist says the hate crime has shocked the faithful of St. Anthony's Parish outside of Lahore.
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Card Sako writes to the US and Iran, saying no to war, yes to dialogue to solve the crisis
May 22, 2019
With rising tensions in the background, the Chaldean primate writes to US and Iranian embassies in Baghdad, stressing the consequences of "another cat
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CERAO-RECOWA: The Church in Africa must welcome, protect, promote and integrate
May 21, 2019
Nigerian Jesuit priest, Fr. Ikechi Ikena of the Holy See’s Migration and Refugees Section at the Dicastery for Integral Human Development has invited West African Bishops to arm themselves, in the pastoral care of migrants and displaced persons, with the four action verbs of Pope Francis, which are: “To welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate.”
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Bombed St. Anthony’s Shrine of Sri Lanka feels closeness of Universal Church
May 21, 2019
Father Jude Raj Fernando, the Rector of St. Anthony’s Shrine Kochikade in Colombo spoke to Vatican News about the mood among Catholics nearly a month after the suicide bomb attacks of Easter Sunday.
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Irish Bishops plead for ‘informed voting’ in EU elections
May 21, 2019
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ireland releases a statement ahead of European elections this week, reminding voters of the EU’s Christian heritage.
Sunday Reflection
Sixth Sunday of Easter: Three Cultures
Today’s first reading presents the solution to the great internal struggle of the Primitive or Earliest Church. Externally, it was the question of whether or not gentile Christians had to practise Jewish customs.
