Global Church News
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Kolkata, Sisters of Mother Teresa distribute food to 40 thousand families
May 20, 2020
The Missionaries of Charity, with a truck and an ambulance, tour several slums in the metropolis. Gift packages containing rice, sugar, wheat flour, dried legumes, lentils. Recipients are poor, unemployed and migrants affected by the lockdown. Cyclone Amphan is coming, with winds at 185 km / h. Millions of people evacuated to India and Bangladesh.
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Holy Cross brothers harvest rice for quarantined farmers
May 20, 2020
Many workers are unable to reach the countryside because of the lockdown. About 80% of the population lives on agriculture, and rice is the main food. The missionaries were inspired by Pope Francis' Laudato si.
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Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon
May 20, 2020
Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a "humanitarian and environmental tragedy."
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Holy See donates to WHO fund for medics on pandemic front line
May 20, 2020
The Holy See has pledged to contribute to the World Health Organization’s emergency fund supplying protective equipment to medics fighting the coronavirus, an archbishop has said.
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Nun leads young Kenyans to make 'little contributions' to Laudato Si'
May 20, 2020
A Catholic nun is working with young Kenyans to put Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si'” into action.
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St. John Paul II was an ‘extraordinary gift’ to the Church
May 20, 2020
Pope Francis described St. John Paul II as “an extraordinary gift of God to the Church and to Poland” in a video message to young people in Kraków Monday.
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Special Week and Anniversary Year to mark 5 years of “Laudato Si"
May 19, 2020
It was on May 24, 2015, that Pope Francis signed his landmark encyclical, “‘Laudato Si’: On the Care for Our Common Home”.
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Laudato si’ anniversary celebrated in Faisalabad
May 19, 2020
Bishop Indrias Rehmat noted that nature belongs to everyone because it is our common home and everyone benefits from it. Now our common home is weeping over global warming and pollution. It is our common duty to look after it and not waste its resources.
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Card. Gracias: Pope Wojtyla, a fearless man who changed the world
May 19, 2020
Let us pray to Pope John Paul II in this moment of pandemic that intercedes for us. Pope John Paul II knows our pain, our sufferings, let us ask him to strengthen our faith, our trust that God takes care of us.
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Pope sends message to Polish young people, on birth centenary of John Paul II
May 19, 2020
Pope Francis sends a video message to the young people of Krakow, as Poland and the world marks the birth centenary of Pope St. John Paul II.
Sunday Reflection
The power of love
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Joseph Lubula