Global Church News

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  Dalai Lama says he admires Mother Teresa

  Sep 08, 2016

  The head of Tibetan Buddhism sends a letter to Sister Mary Prema, superior of the Missionaries of Charity. In 1988 he met the saint in Oxford, and immediately realised that she was someone "exemplary". “She revealed the true practice of love in her charitable activities.”

  
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  Bishop Zhu Weifang of Wenzhou, the city of demolished crosses, has died

  Sep 08, 2016

  Msgr. Vincent Zhu Weifang, bishop of Wenzhou (Zhejiang) died this morning at the age of 90.

  
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  Spanish nun murdered in Haiti

  Sep 08, 2016

  As the world turned its focus on Rome for the canonization of Mother Teresa last weekend, another religiouAs the world turned its focus on Rome for th

  
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  Commission for Justice and Peace: Mother Teresa, a testament for all mankind

  Sep 07, 2016

  Profound joy at the canonization on September 4 in the Vatican. Msgr. Arshad: "The Mother showed that serving others before ourselves defeats the evil of today." Priest and activist recalls the message of the Saint: love, a "language that everyone understands."

  
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  Archbishop Martin invites people to share works and examples of mercy

  Sep 07, 2016

  In his homily Archbishop Eamon said “The canonisation of Saint Teresa of Calcutta challenges us all to #BeMercy and also to give thanks for those who live the works of mercy as she did. In the coming three weeks I invite you to pray with me in thanksgiving for people you know who put the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into practice in their daily lives”.

  
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  Bishops on mission gather in Rome

  Sep 07, 2016

  There are 94 bishops appointed in the last two years to ecclesiastical circumscriptions dependent on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples taking part in the Seminar of Study promoted by their Dicastery from September 5-17.

  
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  Muslims’ presence at mass

  Sep 07, 2016

  A few Sundays ago in some churches in France and Italy persons of Muslim faith assisted at Mass as a sign of solidarity with Catholics following the murder of Father Jacques Hamel close to Rouen in Normandy by two Islamic extremists.

  
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  Dhaka, believers of all religions remember Mother Teresa

  Sep 07, 2016

  About 500 Hindus, Christians and Muslims flocked to the Christian community center in the capital. The commemoration of the saint took place on the eve of the canonization. Mother Teresa as an example and inspiration for young people, social workers, politicians.

  
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  Mother Teresa “recognized the deepest hunger in all of us: The hunger for God”

  Sep 07, 2016

  The superior of the Missionaries of Charity, Sr. Mary Prema, speaks about the life and mission of the new saint, underlining their most important aspect: her total submission to God's will. The Mother always kept her gaze fixed on Christ, recognising in him in suffering and poverty.

  
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  Humility: Jesus, Grant me the grace to desire it

  Sep 07, 2016

  Some years ago, at my morning prayer group, my cherished friend Deacon Larry brought copies of the Litany of Humility. I never had heard of that praye