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Six kidnapped nuns liberated in Nigeria
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 11, 2018 at 5:15 am Uromi, Nigeria, Jan 11, 2018 / 05:15 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- During a two day police operation, six women religious who were captured in Nigeria's Edo state two months ago were...
Cardinal Parolin, ’Amoris Laetitia’ calls for ’change of attitude’ toward families
Vatican Insider - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:57 am Asked in a Jan. 11 interview about the ongoing discussion over the meaning of the pope’s 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the document “...
Historic German church demolished by mining company
Catholic Herald - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:09 am A 19th-Century Catholic church in a village in western Germany was destroyed on Tuesday to make way for a coalmine. St Lambertus church, known locally as a ‘cathedral’ due to its...
Sunday Mass attendance falls to 37% in Poland (Zenit)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:01 am Fewer than half of Sunday Mass attendees receive Holy Communion, according to the report. The Diocese of Tarnow, based in southeastern Poland, has the highest rate of Sunday Mass...
Children die as cold snap hits Bangladesh; Caritas rushes to provide aid (UCANews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:01 amMonks with machetes: why Buddhist nationalists are leading the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar (Washington Monthly)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:01 am Pope Francis’ apostolic journey to Myanmar and Bangladesh began on November 26 and concluded on December 2.
Catholic volunteers in Manila help the homeless help themselves (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:01 am Click here for more information about the Kariton Empowerment Center, which is profiled in this article.
World Watch List 2018: the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to follow Jesus (Open Doors USA)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:01 am North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Pakistan top the list.
The saints did not all begin well, but they ended well.
Aleteia - Jan 11, 2018 at 3:00 am St. John Vianney
English Church launches ‘God Calls’ app to help discover vocations
Catholic Herald - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:23 am The Catholic Church in England and Wales has launched an app designed to help users deepen their faith and discover their vocations. The “God Calls” app was commissioned by the...
Vatican takes over scandal-hit Sodalitium movement amid abuse allegations
Catholic Herald - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:12 am Saying Pope Francis is following the situation with concern, the Vatican named a Colombian bishop to be the trustee of the scandal-plagued Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Catholic...
The Real Issues Underlying the Dreamer Debate
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:10 am
The problem with the “dreamer” debate is that it has little to do with children or their dreams.
Most of the “dreamer children” are now adults. On average, the 800,000 recipients...
Israeli rabbi killed in West Bank drive-by shooting attack (Haaretz)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 amRegional force targets top Boko Haram jihadists in Nigeria (Agence France-Presse)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 am Soldiers from Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria are taking part in the offensive.
India: priest warns against worship of 'Mother India' (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 am Citing a recent incident, Father Anand Muttungal, spokesman for the Bhopal diocese, said that “we must resist any attempt by Hindu extremist organizations to insist that we must...
World Council of Churches delegation visits Protestants in China (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 am The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is China’s official (and government-controlled) Protestant body. According to the report, “no visits or meetings with unofficial Protestant...
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church inaugurates ?new diocese ? (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 am The event is significant because the diocese is the first Syro-Malabar diocese to provide pastoral care to India’s Syro-Malabar faithful who live outside their traditional...
Pakistan: bishops appeal for funds to assist those injured in church attack (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 am Eleven people were killed in a December terrorist attack on a Methodist church in Quetta, Pakistan.
The Morality of President Trump’s DACA Decision
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 11, 2018 at 2:00 am
As the Congress begins to address the DACA issue in earnest, a review of the Catholic Church’s teachings on, and their application to, the issues involved should contribute to an...
Why I have no pity whatsoever for Steve Bannon….
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 11, 2018 at 1:55 am Here is the House that Bannon built–taking a brief moment to see if, now that this bloated Nazi has been rendered a non-person by his former Sith Master Donald Trump and cut off...
