Global Church News
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Cardinal Parolin says urgency of peace a key reason for Russia trip
Aug 11, 2017
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said he will be going to Russia Aug. 20-24 largely out of a desire to promote peace both there
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Seventy-two years after the Nagasaki bomb, people pray to the Virgin Mary as US-North Korea tensions rise
Aug 11, 2017
At least a thousand people took part in a torchlit procession behind the head of the statue of the Virgin that survived the atomic destruction. Nagasaki Mayor, who fears atomic weapons could be used again in the near future, called on Shinzo Abe to sign the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, which was snubbed by the great powers and their allies.
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Cardinal calls eviction of Venezuela's legislature 'unacceptable'
Aug 11, 2017
Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas expressed Tuesday his “astonishment and rejection” of a series of measures that violate the “will of the sovereign people” in Venezuela.
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Brazilian Archbishop robbed at his residence
Aug 11, 2017
While preparing to travel to Mass on Saturday morning, Archbishop Antonio Muniz Fernandes of Maceio was robbed at gun point, along with a deacon and a caretaker at his residence.
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Texas Bishop: Don't deport mother of young cancer patient
Aug 11, 2017
Deportation to Mexico of the mother of a cancer-stricken girl would be cruelty, the Bishop of El Paso has said.
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St Barbara keeps watch over Scottish tunnel workers
Aug 10, 2017
The workmen nod their heads to a statue of the saint each day while heading to work
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As tensions mount in Korea, Bishops pray for peace
Aug 10, 2017
Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung asks Korean Catholics to seek the Blessed Mother's intercession
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Brazilian Archbishop robbed at gunpoint
Aug 10, 2017
Archbishop Antônio Muniz was leaving his home to go to Mass when the attack happened
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After years of exile, Dominican sisters return to Iraq's Nineveh Plain
Aug 10, 2017
After three years in exile from Iraq's Nineveh Plain while it was occupied by the Islamic State, the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena are returning to their homeland to face the daunting challenge of rebuilding their destroyed communities.
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Pope names new Bishop for Chaldean eparchy of San Diego
Aug 10, 2017
The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has named Bishop Emanuel Hana Shaleta as head of the eparchy of Saint Peter Apostle of San Diego of
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