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Christians slowly return to Iraqi town following liberation from ISIS (World Watch Monitor)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 amCameroon bishops decry violence against the faithful (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 am As government forces clash with an Anglophone secessionist movement, Catholics “were pursued into their houses—some arrested, some maimed and some, including defenseless teenagers...
Episcopal resignations and appointments (10/12) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 am Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a 65-year-old Ivory Coast archbishop and a 67-year-old bishop—each for health reasons (according to this article and this video). The...
Critical review of new Dan Brown novel (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 amPrelate criticizes Trump administration's immigration principles, calls on Congress to protect Dreamers (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 am The White House released its immigration principles and policies on October 8.
Belarus: archbishop deplores government roadblocks to foreign priests (Aid to the Church in Need)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 am The nation of 9.6 million is 48% Orthodox and 21% Catholic.
The HHS mandate remains the rule, with exceptions (OSV Newsweekly)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 amOrissa, site of mass violence against Christians, becomes a place of pilgrimage (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 4:10 amWithout a shared religious narrative, our society is done for
Catholic Herald - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:41 am Neil MacGregor, former director of the National Gallery (where he oversaw the Seeing Salvation exhibition) and former director of the British Museum, is one of our leading public...
Daily Gospel Reflection for October 13, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 11:15-26
I wonder what I would have felt as a Hebrew hearing the prophesy of Joel. Lament, howl, cry, tremble. Darkness, destruction, whirlwinds, like...
Coptic priest killed in street attack in Cairo
Catholic Herald - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:26 am Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church says a priest has been killed in a knife attack in a poor Cairo district, the latest deadly assault on members of the country’s Christian minority....
Wednesday 18 October
Vatican Insider - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:12 am 9.50 am: The Pope will hold his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square ...
Vincentian family celebrates 400th anniversary (Vincentian Family Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 am St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) founded the Daughters of Charity and the Congregation of the Mission. Click here for Vatican Radio coverage and here for the papal message for...
Sunday 15 October
Vatican Insider - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 am Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass with Canonization. Upon conclusion, recitation of the Marian Angelus prayer....
70,000 make pilgrimage to Angola's national Marian shrine (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 amSouth Korean prelates call for abolition of capital punishment (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 am South Korea’s last execution took place in 1997, though 61 prisoners remain on death row.
Vatican prelate reflects on Pope's remarks on death penalty (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 am The president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization said that the Pope’s recent remarks on the death penalty are in line with the teaching of St....
13,000 Spanish missionaries serve in 128 countries (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 amEPA's decision to repeal Clean Power Plan 'will likely increase premature deaths' (Catholic Climate Covenant)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:10 am The US bishops’ conference is the leading financial supporter of the Catholic Climate Covenant, which is a partnership of 17 Catholic organizations, including 2 USCCB offices.
Mexican state to build world’s tallest Virgin Mary statue
Catholic Herald - Oct 13, 2017 at 3:02 am State and municipal officials in the north-central state of Zacatecas have unveiled plans to build the world’s biggest statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the national patroness —...
