Global Church News
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Covid-19: Global death toll passes 3 million
Apr 07, 2021
The global COVID-19 death toll exceeds 3 million amid a resurgence of new infections.
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Card Ranjith attacks former President Sirisena over Easter Sunday bombings
Apr 07, 2021
The prelate slams the former head of state for seeking office again. According to the Archbishop of Colombo, Sirisena must be indicted. If no justice is done by 21 April, he will take to the streets. At 8.45 am, the moment of the first blasts, church bells tolled across Sri Lanka.
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St John Baptist de La Salle
Apr 07, 2021
Complete dedication to what he saw as God’s will for him dominated the life of John Baptist de La Salle. In 1950, Pope Pius XII named him patron of schoolteachers for his efforts in upgrading school instruction.
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India: Vital energy for the Bihar inspired by Laudato si’
Apr 07, 2021
Notre Dame Sister Mary Jyotisha Kannamkal is a Laudato si’ Animator within the Global Catholic Climate Movement. In Patna, Bihar, located in Northeast India, she organizes educational courses and interreligious meetings dedicated to Pope Francis’s Encyclical, without ever forgetting the country’s poor whose suffering has increased due to the Coronavirus crisis.
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Catastrophic cyclone and floods strike Indonesia and East Timor
Apr 06, 2021
At least 100 people are dead, scores are missing and thousands are displaced in Indonesia and East Timor after a tropical cyclone unleashed floods and landslides that engulfed large parts of the vast archipelago of islands.
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Myanmar's struggle will not be in vain, says Cardinal Bo
Apr 06, 2021
In an Easter message, he says a new Myanmar of peace and prosperity will rise from 'the grave of hatred and darkness'
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Thousands sign petition seeking freedom for Indian Jesuit
Apr 06, 2021
Refusing bail to an elderly and ailing person with limited mobility and no history of violence is beyond comprehension, letter states.
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Philippine priest washes feet of Manila street dwellers
Apr 06, 2021
A Catholic priest in the Philippines has commemorated Jesus Christ’s last supper by washing the feet of street dwellers and staff of the St. Arnold Janssen Kalinga Center, a foundation that feeds Manila’s homeless every day.
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At Easter Sunday Mass, Patriarch Pizzaballa tells Holy Land Christians ‘nothing is impossible’
Apr 05, 2021
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem urged Christians in the Holy Land on Easter Sunday to take courage and believe that “nothing is impossible.”
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Myanmar protesters make Easter eggs a symbol of defiance
Apr 05, 2021
Opponents of military rule in Myanmar inscribed messages of protest on Easter eggs on Sunday while thousands of others were back on the streets denoun
Sunday Reflection
Embracing the wisdom of the human heart
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr George Vaithynathan