Global Church News

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  Indian Catholics look forward to Pope Francis' visit

  Oct 05, 2016

  Pope Paul VI was the first to make a papal visit to India when in 1964 he came to Mumbai.

  
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  Seven Catholic institutions plan to divest from fossil fuel companies

  Oct 05, 2016

  The organizations cited the Pope's encyclical on the environment as the inspiration for the decision

  
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  Two suspects killed Mexican priest after ‘falling out’, prosecutor claims

  Oct 05, 2016

  The chief prosecutor for Michoacan said Fr Jose Alfredo Lopez Guillen was killed after meeting with the men at his residence

  
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  Jesuits begin process to choose new superior

  Oct 05, 2016

  The order's voting delegates and Jesuits living in Rome celebrated the Mass at Rome's Church of the Gesu on Sunday

  
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  New regulations will ‘enlarge Chinese government’s power over religions’, experts warn

  Oct 04, 2016

  According to the Holy Spirit Study Centre of Hong Kong's Catholic diocese, the rules would tighten controls of foreign clergy and religious material on the internet.

  
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  The feast of Saint Francis of Assisi: A day of prayer for peace in Syria

  Oct 04, 2016

  The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace – Caritas Canada is organizing a day of prayer for peace in Syria on the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, Tuesday, October 4, 2016.

  
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  Meet the Nun who ‘restitches’ handbags and the lives of child-soldiers

  Oct 04, 2016

  Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, a Catholic nun whose humanitarian work has drawn the attention of Bill and Chelsea Clinton, Forest Whitaker and other high-profile supporters, has dedicated her life to helping girls formerly held captive by warlord Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army.

  
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  Three cardinals sign statement defending magisterial teaching on the sacraments

  Oct 04, 2016

  Cardinals Burke, Caffarra and Pujats are among 4,000 signatories who affirm the Church's teachings on marriage and the Eucharist

  
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  No war of religions’? Fr Hamel’s canonisation would contradict the Pope’s narrative

  Oct 04, 2016

  Making the murdered French priest a saint will also challenge Catholics to ask themselves, am I prepared to die in God's service?

  
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  Georgian Catholics started from zero, what's next after the papal visit

  Oct 04, 2016

  The tiny community of the Catholic Church in Georgia was barely surviving just decades ago.