Global Church News

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  Velankanni church gets ready for September festival

  Aug 29, 2016

  Around 800,000 people from different faiths are expected to visit Velankanni church during the September festival.

  
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  Pope Francis to canonize Hillary Clinton Nemesis Mother Teresa

  Aug 29, 2016

  Next Sunday Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa a saint, the very woman who fought Hillary Clinton tooth and nail for her abortion advocacy.

  
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  First Mongolian priest ordained with Korean support

  Aug 29, 2016

  Father Enkh Joseph was ordained at a ceremony attended by some 1,500 people.

  
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  Would-be suicide bomber attacks priest with axe at Sunday Mass

  Aug 29, 2016

  Indonesian police say the congregation restrained the 18-year-old assailant

  
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  Archdiocese of Lahore gets a record five new priests

  Aug 29, 2016

  The ordination ceremony took place August 26 friday in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in the presence of hundreds of people. This year 18 priests have already been ordained in Pakistan. The rise of terrorism, beginning with the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States, "increased the local vocations."

  
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  Mother Teresa's canonisation portends more conversions: VHP

  Aug 29, 2016

  The nun founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic religious congregation that works for "the poorest of the poor."

  
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  Little Sisters of the Poor to leave St Louis after nearly 150 years

  Aug 29, 2016

  The sisters cited a decrease in sufficient vocations as the reason for their departure

  
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  The true miracle of 'Ignacio de Loyola'

  Aug 29, 2016

  Pamplona, Spain, 1521. A young Spanish nobleman named Iñigo uncharacteristically spurns the advances of the prostitute Anna, and proposes instead to have an intimate conversation with her.

  
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  Mother Teresa's global impact at center of UN exhibit

  Aug 29, 2016

  Mother Teresa’s tireless work for the poor and her relevance for global affairs will be featured at the United Nations, whose New York headquarters will host several events on her life as an unprecedented tribute to a saint of the Catholic Church.

  
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  30 minutes with Mother Teresa changed me

  Aug 29, 2016

  It was April 1975. The diminutive figure in the white and blue sari was bent and fragile, yet the hand extended was firm and warm.