Global Church News
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Mother Teresa: Bring Jesus to the poor and the poor to Jesus, Revelations and visions (II)
Aug 24, 2016
"Will you refuse to do this for me?" Is the question that Jesus put to Mother Teresa of Calcutta in one of her mystical experiences. The life of the future saint was her response to this question. Fr. Sebastian Vazhakala continues his narrative about the Mother of Calcutta.
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Fragment of Christ's Cross stolen from California church
Aug 24, 2016
A fragment from what is believed to be the True Cross of Christ, stolen from its home beneath a picture. It’s a story one would associate with medieval legends or a Dan Brown novel.
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Kenya: Church calls on government to end arsons in schools
Aug 24, 2016
Chairman of the Kenya’s Bishops’ Commission for Education Laments “Most of the students involved in burning of schools are vulnerable children some coming from dysfunctional families, others are orphans”
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Jakarta Archdiocese brings Year of Mercy to hungry kids
Aug 24, 2016
Jakarta Archdiocese brings Year of Mercy to hungry kids
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Reflections on Mother Teresa from her 'Apostle of the Rosary'
Aug 24, 2016
Women’s rights activist Reggie Littlejohn is known for her fierce work fighting forced abortion and gendercide in China, often through grilling speeches given before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.
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Catholic Church condemns attacks on media in Karachi
Aug 24, 2016
Political activists were incited to invade media houses and trash their property leaving one person shot dead.
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Diary of the miracle for Mother Teresa’s sainthood
Aug 24, 2016
The wife of a Brazilian man who miraculously recovered from life-threatening brain abscesses in 2008 says doctors may have been puzzled over what happened, but not her: "Now me, I knew. I knew that Mother Teresa had cured Marcilio."
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Catholic committed to medical care and scholarships in Cambodia
Aug 24, 2016
For six years, Dr Joseph Ong Yew Jin, a Singaporean physician, has spent his summer holidays in Poipet with his students, helping locals. With local nuns, he provides free medical check-ups and funds for Cambodian students.
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Don't bring back the death penalty, New Mexico bishops plead
Aug 24, 2016
The Catholic bishops of New Mexico are speaking up against a proposal to reintroduce capital punishment in the state, saying that respect for human life must be consistent.
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Boy saved by Mother Teresa is back to celebrate her life
Aug 24, 2016
The year was 1980. A three-year-old boy diagnosed with polio, left on the streets of Howrah, was brought by Mother Teresa to the Missionaries of Charity.



Sunday Reflection
God is not like us
God is beyond us. That is what the readings point to this weekend. The fact that God is a mystery and beyond our thinking is not something that should frustrate or disappoint us but, rather, it should be a source of our hope and the ground that we walk on as Christians.
