Global Church News

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  Fight against Covid: Taipei sends aid to Delhi

  May 01, 2021

  Taiwan will send oxygen concentrators and other medical aid to India, which is struggling with a dramatic surge in coronavirus infections. Deputy Fore

  
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  Indonesian priest builds faith by examining atheism

  May 01, 2021

  Fr Simon Petrus Lili Tjahjadi, a 57-year-old lecturer at Jakarta’s Driyarkara School of Philosophy, has been recognized as the first Catholic priest in Indonesia to earn a doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on modern atheism.

  
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  How churches can respond to the COVID-19 mental health crisis

  May 01, 2021

  With concerns that suicide rates are rising in communities of color during the pandemic, Catholic mental health workers say the Church can play a key role in response.

  
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  Providence diocese relaxes restrictions at liturgies

  May 01, 2021

  The Diocese of Providence is transitioning towards “normal liturgical practices” following new public health guidelines from the state of Rhode Island.

  
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  Vatican accused of investing in companies making ‘morning-after pill’

  May 01, 2021

  An Italian investigative news programme has accused the Vatican’s treasury of investing 20 million euros (around $24 million) in several pharmaceutical companies involved in making the “morningafter pill.”

  
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  Man takes sledgehammer to Marian mural in Los Angeles archdiocese

  May 01, 2021

  A masked man bashed a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a sledgehammer last week, at a parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

  
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  New analysis shows 393 million children unable to read

  May 01, 2021

  A new analysis tool created by a number of organisations, including the charity "Save the Children" reveals the scale of a global learning crisis in w

  
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  Macau Church pays tribute to unborn children

  May 01, 2021

  The Church in Macau offered a special Mass and inaugurated a monument to pay tribute to unborn children who were denied the right to life due to ab

  
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  Gregorian University ramps up Child Protection programme

  May 01, 2021

  The Pontifical Gregorian University’s Centre for Child Protection takes on a new guise and institutional framework, intensifying its commitment to the work of protecting minors and vulnerable people from sexual abuse.

  
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  A lay Catholic woman who runs a parish in the US

  May 01, 2021

  The day begins with a beautiful sunrise: pinks, purples and blues that help dispel the heaviness of our continued slogging through a Covid-19 world.