Global Church News
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Indian singer: Pope Francis and Mercy inspired my song for missing father
Feb 26, 2016
A young Indian singer, Vernon Noronha, 26, in his first music video, admits that the inspiration of his most popular song, about his father who abandoned the family, comes from Pope Francis and the Jubilee of Mercy.
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Religious intolerance in Asia-Pacific 'is growing'
Feb 26, 2016
Religious and ethnic intolerance rose throughout the Asia-Pacific region in 2015 due to discriminatory government policies, said an Amnesty International report launched Feb. 24.
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Jubilee in China, amid cross removals and profiled priests
Feb 26, 2016
Government officials removed the cross from the Zhuangyuan Catholic Church in Yongqiang Parish, in Wenzhou, just before dawn this morning. Local Catholics had not been informed of the decision and so could not prevent the removal of the sacred symbol.
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Why this diocese is holding a 24 hour confess-a-thon
Feb 26, 2016
Priests will be available for confession throughout a special 24-hour period in the Diocese of Bismarck to help celebrate the Year of Mercy.
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What Archbishop Shevchuk saw in the meeting of the Pope and Patriarch Kirill
Feb 26, 2016
What’s next for ecumenism? After the recent meeting between Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church has emphasized that “the first thing is to free religion from politics.”
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Bishop of Balanga: Save 90 Filipino migrants on death row
Feb 26, 2016
Now is "the time to act to free the Filipino detainees overseas and get them home safely."Now is "the time to act to free the Filipino detainees overs
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Dhaka: Bishop D'Rozario, "defender of female education ", has died
Feb 26, 2016
Msgr. Michael A. D'Rozario, Bishop Emeritus and leading figure of the Bangladeshi Catholicism died yesterday at age 91.
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Indian church downplays controversial book on Jesus
Feb 25, 2016
Church leaders in India have downplayed the reprinting of a controversial book that claims Jesus was a Hindu from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, calling it "nonsensical."
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Pakistan split over pope’s appeal against the death penalty
Feb 25, 2016
Pope Francis’s appeal for the abolition of the death penalty in the Year of Mercy has caused mixed reactions in Pakistan.
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The "survival strategy" of religious NGOs in China
Feb 25, 2016
The Chinese government needs non-governmental organizations, particularly those of a Christian matrix, since this religion is rapidly expanding in the



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