Global Church News

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  Tunisia’s Dialogue Quartet wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for pulling the country back from the brink

  Oct 15, 2015

  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.

  
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  Jesuits urge British PM to put people before politics

  Oct 15, 2015

  Fr Dermot Preston SJ, has written to the Prime Minister to urge a change in policy towards refugees in the light of the current crisis in Europe and t

  
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  Read today's report from the German small group at the Synod

  Oct 15, 2015

  The full text of the report released Wednesday by the German-speaking 13 small group at the Synod on the Family.

  
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  Cardinal Sarah says the Christian family counters both Islamic, Western extremism

  Oct 15, 2015

  Cardinal Robert Sarah compared the twin challenges of “the idolatry of Western freedom” and Islamic fundamentalism to two “apocalyptic beasts.”

  
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  Cardinal Re at Fatima: Absence of God is cause of crisis

  Oct 15, 2015

  Celebrating Mass in Fatima feast day, Cardinal Re said the root of the crises in today’s world, both economic and moral, is the “absence of God.”

  
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  In pastoral letter, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says Year of Mercy should extend to public sphere

  Oct 15, 2015

  Earlier this month His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, published a pastoral letter on the theme of the Year of Mercy.

  
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  Small groups give reports on their discussions of part 2 of Instrumentum Laboris

  Oct 15, 2015

  Wednesday General Congregation the various small groups presented the result of their reflections on the second part of the Instrumentum Laboris.

  
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  Cardinal Nichols says no stalemate at synod

  Oct 15, 2015

  Cardinal Nichols says there is no negativity at the synod and that even if there are occasional differences of opinion that's normal in a family.

  
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  How the Catholic Church is fighting loan sharks in Texas

  Oct 14, 2015

  Lenders charging exorbitant rates on payday loans in Arlington, Texas, have a new force to contend with in their fight against regulation.

  
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  After break-in, Bishop Conley prays for burglar's conversion

  Oct 14, 2015

  When Bishop James Conley's residence in Lincoln, Nebraska was invaded and burglarized this weekend, he offered a message of forgiveness.