Global Church News

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  Syrian patriarchs call for a lifting of sanctions because they only affect the population

  Aug 25, 2016

  John X of Antioch, Gregory III Laham and Mar Ignatius Aphrem II call on the international community to end the siege of the Syrian people.

  
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  Here’s how to help earthquake victims in Italy

  Aug 25, 2016

  Caritas Italy immediately mobilizes

  
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  Feast of the Assumption in Juji village where are an elderly couple in their nineties was baptised

  Aug 25, 2016

  People in Juji, a small village in Chiang Rai province, yesterday celebrated the feast day of the Assumption together with Fr Valerio Sala, a missionary with the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), who is the local parish priest.

  
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  Special postal cover to mark Mother Teresa’s canonisation

  Aug 25, 2016

  Pope Francis will canonise Mother Teresa on September 4.

  
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  Mother Teresa’s sainthood miracle in a Brazilian operating room

  Aug 25, 2016

  When Pope Francis stages his next big canonization ceremony on Sept. 4, the star of the show will be Mother Teresa, the legendary “Apostle of the Poor” who stands as one of the most iconic Catholic figures of the 20th century.

  
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  Monks of Norcia among those affected by the quake

  Aug 25, 2016

  “it is very sad to see the many beautiful restorations we’ve made to St. Benedict’s birthplace reduced, in a moment, to disrepair”

  
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  Miao Diocese in India to honour Mother Teresa with its first hospital

  Aug 25, 2016

  The first hospital of the Diocese of Miao, in North East India, to be inaugurated on Sept 8 will be dedicated to Bl. Mother Theresa of Kolkata.

  
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  Bishop of Ascoli Piceno visits survivors of central Italian earthquake

  Aug 25, 2016

  Pope Francis cancelled the catechism portion of his Wednesday General Audience and led pilgrims in praying the rosary for the victims of the earthquake

  
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  Cardinal Sarah: Reaction to my ad orientem speech was ‘not always very accurate’

  Aug 25, 2016

  The cardinal said that his comments about the liturgy at a conference in London last month were misinterpreted

  
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  Pope John Paul I to be honored with museum in northern Italy

  Aug 25, 2016

  On Friday a museum dedicated to Pope John Paul I will officially be inaugurated in the hometown of the “Smiling Pope,” whom Pope Francis has often quo