Global Church News
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Hundreds protest abortion with silent Eucharistic procession
Oct 31, 2017
Organisers say around 700 joined the procession in Norwich
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Corpus Christi processions ‘under threat’ in Scotland after police ruling
Oct 31, 2017
Parishes face big legal bills and red tape thanks to a decision by Police Scotland, an academic has claimed
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Police remove Catholics praying rosary from Reformation service
Oct 31, 2017
The group disrupted the ecumenical service by reciting the rosary out loud
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Cardinal Wuerl: Francis' liturgical translation reform is 'what the council said'
Oct 31, 2017
In decentralizing authority from the Vatican to bishops' conferences for the translation of texts for the Catholic Church's liturgies from Latin into local languages, Pope Francis is simply putting in place a reform called for by the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council, said Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
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A Muslim defends the cross of John Paul II that the state wants to remove
Oct 31, 2017
A monument to the saintly pope in Ploërmel, Morbihan (Brittany), is at the centre of a controversy because it is topped by a cross. France’s Council of State has ordered its removal to defend secularism. On social media, people have reacted with the #MontreTaCroix (show your cross) hashtag.
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Head of Cristo Rey New York High School receives Spirit of Francis Award
Oct 31, 2017
Jesuit Fr. Joseph Parkes, president of Cristo Rey New York High School, is the 2017 recipient of Catholic Extension's Spirit of Francis Award.
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Philippine Christian leaders join to help rebuild Muslim-majority city
Oct 31, 2017
Christian leaders in Philippines have banded together to help rebuild Marawi, a Muslim-majority city in southern Philippines damaged by five months of occupation by terrorists.
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Supreme Court hears oral arguments in death penalty case
Oct 31, 2017
A death penalty case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 30 examines whether a Texas death-row inmate was given effective counsel when he was sentenced to death in 1997.
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Chaldean Patriarch: Christians fleeing the conflict between Kurds and Iraqis, fears of a new exodus
Oct 31, 2017
Mar Sako denounces the new wave of violence that has hit "the towns of Nineveh." Many residents have fled and breathe a "renewed atmosphere of anxiety and fear". Kurdish President Barzani announces his retirement. And he charges Baghdad, Washington and internal opponents, guilty of treason.
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After 50 years, bell rings at Kashmir’s 120-year-old church
Oct 30, 2017
The church and its belfry were damaged in the attack by protesters demonstrating against the 1967 Mideast war.
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