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2025-03-25 11:44:04

Catholic Church desecrated in Indian state of Odisha
MUMBAI, India – Vandals on March 21 robbed and desecrated a Catholic Church in Odisha’s Balangir district in the Diocese of Sambalpur in India. The next day, Bishop Niranjan Sualsingh of Sambalpur said some people broke open the Holy Family Church at Titilagarh and took away the tabernacle and the donation box, also destroying a
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2025-01-09 13:00:00

President Biden cancels audience with Pope due to LA wildfires
President Joe Biden has canceled his forthcoming trip to Italy that included an audience with Pope Francis. The decision to cancel what would have been his last foreign trip as president has been made in order to “remain focused on directing the full federal response” to wildfires raging in Los Angeles, California, the White House
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2025-01-02 09:15:00

Archbishop of New Orleans speaks out after terrorist attack leaves 15 dead
Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans has denounced the “horrific attack” that occurred in his city in Louisiana, and said “our prayers go out” to the victims, while praising the responses of law enforcement and emergency staff “in the face of such evil”. A suspect named Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a pick-up truck around barriers and
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2024-12-25 12:31:32

Urbi et Orbi: Pope Francis uses Christmas address to call for ceasefire in Holy Land
Pope Francis has used his seasonal Urbi et Orbi address to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, as well as for the release of hostages, adding that aid needs to be given to the people “worn out by hunger and by war.” He made his comments during the traditional Christmas blessing
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2024-12-24 22:42:24

Christmas begins: Pope Francis opens the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica ahead of the 2025 Year of Jubilee
ROME – Pope Francis has initiated the Christmas celebrations in Rome by opening the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica in anticipation of the 2025 Year of Jubilee. “The steps we now take are the steps of the whole church,” he said. Meanwhile, the Vatican issued a statement saying the 2025 jubilee “coincides with an
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2024-12-24 13:56:23

The Christian message in ‘Red One’
Red One is this year’s family Christmas blockbuster in which Santa is “kidnapped” and must be rescued (by a tracker from the naughty list) if Christmas is to be saved. Expect all the usual moments of madcap comedy and butt-kicking action, but there is a lot more to this film than first meets the eye. A
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2024-12-23 21:24:15

‘Things have changed since Mum died. What’s wrong with me?’ One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions
Concerned Catholic: My mother and I were very close. As the unmarried daughter living nearby, I saw most of her during her old age. We went to Mass together each Sunday and often during the week as well. She died a peaceful death; the funeral was very beautiful. Subsequently, things have changed. I feel so
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2024-12-23 14:45:00

Pro-Palestinian protest disrupts Mass at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin
The 11 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin was disrupted by a pro-Palestinian protest on Sunday. Videos circulating online show around thirty predominantly elderly protesters walked up the church aisle carrying a variety of placards and photographs on 22 December. They arrived after Holy Communion, just as the choir had made their way
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2024-12-23 10:31:32

Lord Mayor of Westminster receives Papal honour
The Lord Mayor of Westminster is to be become a Papal Knight – the highest single honour that can be bestowed on a lay Catholic by the Vatican. Cllr Robert Rigby will become a Knight of St Gregory, an honour first established in 1831 and given to Catholic men and women for their service to
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2024-12-23 10:01:50

Catholic patriarch enters Gaza day after Pope said he had been blocked
ROME – Roughly twenty-four hours after Pope Francis publicly charged that Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Rite Patriarch of Jerusalem, had been denied entry into the Gaza Strip, Pizzaballa made a regularly scheduled Christmas visit to the lone Catholic parish in Gaza, saying Mass and celebrating a handful of confirmations and first communions. Pope Francis’s
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2024-12-23 08:20:00

Dickensian levels of poverty still exist today
There are few, if any, authors more firmly associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens. He may not have been, as the movie suggests, the man who invented Christmas, but he certainly changed the way we see it. For Dickens, Christmas was the greatest Christian feast: it was also one of his greatest themes. According to
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2024-12-22 10:20:18

What are we to make of Trump’s choice of a ‘pope critic’ as ambassador to the Holy See?
ROME – Famously, von Clausewitz defined war as “the continuation of politics by other means”. To hear some people tell it, President-elect Donald Trump has an analogous, if inverted, understanding of diplomacy as the continuation of war by other means, as exemplified by his Dec. 20 pick for U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. Brian Burch,
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2024-12-22 10:07:04

The Children’s Society should spare us the sanctimony and wash Welby’s money clean
The subject of tainted money has broken out on to the public stage once again. Not long ago the then Archbishop Justin Welby had become convinced that the historic funds of the Church of England had been irreparably corrupted by association with investments in slavery, and that he needed to give them away as reparations
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2024-12-22 09:45:07

‘Blessed are you among women’
“He shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD” (Micah 5:4) Micah’s prophecy of Jesus in Sunday’s first reading looks forward to when he will be our Good Shepherd, carrying us home on his shoulders spiritually, by carrying the cross on his shoulders physically. We can resist him lifting us up
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2024-12-21 09:38:41

Trump rewards CatholicVote boss with top job at the Holy See
ROME – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a Catholic political advocate and media figure as the next American Ambassador to the Holy See. In nominating Brian Burch, the president of the pro-Republican CatholicVote website, Mr Trump has moved to fill the position more rapidly than any incoming or re-elected president in the last quarter-century.
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2024-12-20 14:12:25

Pope names replacement for fired U.S. Bishop Joseph Strickland
The Pope today named a replacement for the American bishop he controversially fired more than a year ago. Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop John Kelly of Dallas to succeed Bishop Joseph Strickland as the Bishop of Tyler, Texas. Bishop Strickland, 66, was removed from office by the Pontiff in November last year and Bishop Joe
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2024-12-19 15:30:00

Kneeling or standing for Holy Communion: the debate again ignites
The recent letter of Cardinal Blaise Cupich of Chicago on the manner of receiving Holy Communion has reignited the long-standing debate over kneeling and standing. Contrary to the impression one might receive from the at times acrimonious online debate, Cardinal Cupich’s instructions are par for the course and certainly not outlandish. The problem derives from
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2024-12-19 14:00:00

Cardinal tries to ban girls from being altar servers
Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo has tried to ban girls from serving as altar servers in his archdiocese, on the grounds that the role of altar server is potentially part of the pathway to the male-only priesthood and having girls as altar servers could impact vocations. In a 22 October 2024 letter addressed
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2024-12-19 12:45:00

Ten Commandments tablet sells for double estimate at over $5 million
A marble tablet bearing an ancient rendition of text related to the Ten Commandments has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $5.04 million, twice as much as the initial highest estimate. Before the auction on 18 December, Sotheby’s had estimated that the tablet, which it claims dates from the late Roman-Byzantine era, would sell
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2024-12-19 10:45:00

French Revolution’s Martyrs of Compiègne canonised despite lack of miracle
Pope Francis has officially made the Martyrs of Compiègne saints. It was a rare moment on 18 December, not only because the sixteen Sisters who were martyred have not had a miracle officially attributed to them, but also because no one in the Church disagreed with the decision to canonise them. In order to understand
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2024-12-19 10:00:00

Christians can’t be bystanders in new Syria, says Maronite archbishop
Archbishop Joseph Tobjie of Aleppo says Christians must play a role in building an inclusive and democratic society in Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Christians made up about 10 per cent of the pre-war Syrian population but now make up less than 2 per cent, falling from 1.5 million in 2011 to just
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2024-12-19 09:30:00

As Advent unfolds the Holy Family’s plight teaches us not to ignore Sudan’s cries for help
The season of Advent offers us not only a time to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Christ but also a moment for deep reflection. It is a season to pause and recognise the blessings we so often take for granted – a warm meal, a roof over our heads, the care of
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2024-12-18 16:30:00

The latest commotion over how to receive Communion highlights culture wars in the Church making parishioners the victims
Do you kneel when you receive Communion at Mass? I don’t really care, except for the fact that the question has become the latest battleground in a decades-old culture war in the Catholic Church. In such situations, I get paid to care. Last week, Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago wrote a letter
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2024-12-18 13:45:00

Is King Charles’s soul prisoner to the British monarchy and its link to Anglicanism?
The so-called “Man in the Iron Mask” was a political prisoner in 17th-century France. The French State kept his identity hidden. Voltaire once suggested that he was illegitimate elder brother of Louis the 14th. It was a mystery that was never solved. To what extent today is Charles Windsor a prisoner of the duties
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2024-12-18 12:15:00

UK issues travel warning for Italy in Jubilee year; recommends ‘digital pilgrim card’
The UK government has issued a travel warning for those planning to travel to Italy and especially to Rome over the next 12 months. The warning relates to the Jubilee 2025 Holy Year, which is expected to increase the number of people visiting the Italian capital to 35 million – 22 million more than came in
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2024-12-18 10:45:00

British spies foiled two plots to kill Pope Francis in Iraq
British intelligence thwarted two terrorist plots to murder Pope Francis during his 2021 visit to Iraq, a new book has revealed. Spies tipped off the Vatican’s security detail that a female suicide bomber had been dispatched to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to coincide with the Pontiff’s historic visit to the city. They learned
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2024-12-18 09:45:00

King Charles attends Advent service at Farm Street for Christians in Iraq, Syria
King Charles III has said he is praying for the people of Syria after attending a special Advent service for Christians in the Middle East held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, in London. The service at the famous Jesuit church in the British capital on 17 December, which was co-hosted by
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2024-12-17 18:00:00

Colin Farrell: a foundation for the future to support families with special-needs children
For many years, Christmas Day for Colin Farrell meant a trip to hospital. Not for health reasons – the actor would visit to give out toys to sick young patients. “There’s a children’s hospital in Crumlin, Dublin, that used to be called Our Lady’s,” Farrell tells me, when we meet at an event organised by
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2024-12-17 14:47:44

Latin Mass could be restricted at Chartres pilgrimage
The celebration of the Latin Mass at the annual Chartres pilgrimage could face restrictions in 2025, according to recent reports in the French press. French Catholic daily La Croix has reported that the French pilgrimage is thought to be under Vatican review, as the Dicastery for Divine Worship believes its organisers are not adhering to current
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2024-12-17 11:33:56

Holy Land patriarchs call for Christmas ceasefire across Middle East
ROME – In their Christmas message this year, the church leaders and patriarchs of Jerusalem voiced gratitude for a recent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and called for the truce to be expanded throughout the region. In their 2024 Christmas message, published Dec. 13, the patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem thanked God “for
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2024-12-17 10:52:41

Jesus’ crown of thorns returned to Notre Dame Cathedral
The relic of the crown of thorns was returned to Notre Dame in Paris on Friday last week, five years after it was saved from the devastating fire which almost completely destroyed the cathedral. The crown – a band of branches encased in a circular tube – was carried back to its home in a
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2024-12-16 18:56:15

Christians in Syria celebrate first Sunday Mass since fall of Assad
Christians have celebrated their Sunday services in Syria for the first time since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. This return is seen by many as an early test of the assurances given by the new Islamist rulers that the rights of minorities will be protected. The end of the Ba’athist regime marks the
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2024-12-16 12:39:01

‘Political Economy and the Good Life’: exploring postliberalism and Catholic social teaching
CAMBRIDGE – A couple of days ago the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute hosted “Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference” at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge – where TS Eliot first delivered the lectures that became The Idea of a Christian Society. To bring together speakers ranging from Maurice Glasman and Phillip Blond to
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2024-12-16 09:47:30

Pope laicises Argentine priest for multiple cases of child abuse
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Pope Francis removed Argentine Father Justo José Ilarraz of the Diocese of Santísima Concepción in Tucumán from the priesthood on Dec. 11, in a surprising gesture that brought solace to the victims, who had been denouncing the priest since the 1990s. Ilarraz is accused of abusing over 50 teenagers with ages
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2024-12-16 09:34:53

The SSPX’s bishop problem
On June 30, 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, without Vatican authorisation, consecrated four priests to the episcopate. Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta all became bishops of Lefebvre’s Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). Lefebvre had been in the habit of ordaining priests without the approval of the Holy See
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2024-12-15 11:00:00

Who comes next? It’s not inappropriate to speculate on Pope Francis’s successor
ROME – Whenever popes begin to age or fall sick, two developments are as inevitable as the rising and the setting of the sun. First, some people will begin to speculate about the next pontiff; secondly, other people will get their noses out of joint about it. In part, the umbrage reflects a pious sense
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2024-12-15 08:00:00

Gaudete Sunday: John the Baptist’s joyful surrender to his mission
“The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7) In this Sunday’s second reading, a more literal translation than “minds” is “thoughts”: God’s peace guards all our “thoughts in Christ Jesus”. Is this excessive? Are not my thoughts my own? In fact, surrendering each
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2024-12-14 20:11:14

On the streets of Oxford with the Companions of the Order of Malta
Arriving at Oxford’s Examination Schools, we found ourselves in a bit of a tight corner. The corner in question was very much a literal one: an awkward spot on the meandering route of the Freshers’ Fair, poorly located in terms of visibility, and in the dreaded Final Room. For those of you who have managed
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2024-12-14 12:30:00

A look from afar: thoughts of Advent in Cambridge and further afield
The potency of human voices singing with collective purpose is a thing most people can experience year-round. But the approach of Christmas gives it a peculiar intensity – and for me it begins on Advent Sunday, which I always spend in Cambridge, at the chapel of Clare College where they manage Advent well. The debt
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2024-12-14 10:30:00

Back on the plane: Pope Francis heads to Corsica with an ongoing agenda
ROME – When Pope Francis visits the French Mediterranean island of Corsica tomorrow, it’ll be a chance to reiterate his well-known positions on migration and climate, and to empower the appeal among youth of local confraternities and popular devotion in the region. The brief visit will mark the Pope’s 47th international trip and the first-ever
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2024-12-13 15:59:45

The Warwick Street Chapel: A noble architectural survivor of anti-Catholic rioting, enemy action and liturgical trends
Warwick Street began its life as a chapel in 1724 when the Portuguese ambassador came to live in Golden Square. Under the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713-14, Catholic ambassadors had the right to have Mass celebrated in their chapels. In 1747 the Bavarian Minister took over the building. This arrangement continued until 1871 when the
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2024-12-13 10:22:24

Vatican gripped by gay and left wing cliques who love Palestinians and think ‘Trump is a devil’, says whistleblower
A union representing the Vatican’s lay employees has distanced itself from an anonymous interview in which a worker complained bitterly about a stranglehold of gay and left-wing cliques over the Holy See. The Association of Lay Vatican Employees nevertheless confirmed mounting “tension and dissatisfaction” among the Pope’s workforce over poor financial management also alleged by
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2024-12-13 09:39:43

Pope appeals for abolition of capital punishment as Biden denies reprieve to death row inmates
Pope Francis yesterday called for all nations to eliminate the death penalty in his message for the 2025 Message for the World Day of Peace. He said capital punishment “not only compromises the inviolability of life but eliminates every human hope of forgiveness and rehabilitation”. On Sunday, during his Angelus, the Pope made a specific
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2024-12-13 08:59:45

Archbishop apologises for ‘heart-breaking’ abuse by Caldey Island monks
The Archbishop of Cardiff-Menevia has apologised to people who were sexually abused by monks on Caldey Island. Archbishop Mark O’Toole expressed his regret on behalf of the Catholic Church following the publication of The Caldey Abbey Review into allegations of non-recent childhood sexual abuse within the monastic community of Caldey Abbey, Pembrokeshire. The archbishop said:
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2024-12-12 16:00:00

Assisted suicide MP unveils ‘stacked’ committee to consider her Bill
Kim Leadbeater has assembled a “stacked committee” to scrutinise her assisted suicide Bill, critics have claimed. The 23-member committee omits many key opponents to the Bill in the House of Commons while including those who are actively campaigning for a change in the law. “It’s a bit of a shame Kim has ignored suggestions for
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2024-12-12 15:30:00

US Bishops and Jews co-release booklet on anti-Semitic terms and tropes
The US Bishops’ Conference and American Jewish Committee have published a new version of the latter’s glossary of antisemitic rhetoric that is annotated with the Catholic perspective on each definition. The move comes in an effort to “continue building bridges and combat antisemitism”. On 11 December, the two organisations announced the release of Translate Hate: The
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2024-12-12 14:30:00

Pope Francis urges Rome to host young pilgrims ‘from every part of the earth’
Pope Francis has written a letter to families, parishes and religious communities in the Diocese of Rome urging them to host young pilgrims during events for the upcoming Jubilee of Hope. In his 11 December letter, addressed to Cardinal Baldassare Reina, vicar of Rome, the Pope said that the 2025 Jubilee year “is rapidly approaching
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2024-12-12 13:00:00

‘Tis the season to live liturgically
Family traditions get made, repeated and remembered at Christmastime. From setting Christmas puddings ablaze with brandy to finding stockings at the end of the bed first thing on Christmas Day morning, families celebrate the season with festive traditions new and old. As the mother of a one-year-old son, I’ve been reflecting on these traditions more
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2024-12-12 11:30:00

EU should protect Christianity like it does for Islam and Judaism
The European Union is being called on by Catholic religious leaders to address its lack of representation when it comes to dealing with anti-Christian hatred in its member states. The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) – the body that officially represents the Catholic Church to the European Union (EU) –
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2024-12-12 10:30:00

Solemn Mass by Cardinal Nichols concludes Farm Street Church’s 175th anniversary celebrations
A Solemn Mass celebrated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady rounded off a year of Jubilee celebrations marking 175 years since the famous London church was opened by the Jesuits in Britain. The special Mass at Farm Street Church on 9 December included music by composers Luca
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2024-12-12 09:00:00

Ten Commandments up for auction, valued at $2 million
The oldest stone inscription giving a rendering of the “Ten Commandments” will go up for auction on 18 December at Sotheby’s in New York. Dating to the late Roman-Byzantine era, the “remarkable” artefact is approximately 1,500 years old and is reportedly “the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era”,
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2024-12-11 17:00:00

Don’t rush to claim Syria’s Christians are safe – we’re dealing with Islamists in a volatile situation
“Syria is free,” according to Washington Post columnist Joe Rogin. “The rebels won. The people liberated themselves from tyranny,” he went on. While the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad is finally over, this does not mean his replacements are necessarily interested in the kind of “freedom” you and I would recognise as such. Assad’s Iran-
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2024-12-11 16:00:00

Vatican Nativity scene with Christ child on Palestinian keffiyeh removed
A Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican that depicted the infant Jesus resting upon a Palestinian keffiyeh has now been removed after causing significant controversy. When the scene was unveiled on 7 December in the Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall, the placing of the infant Jesus upon a piece of cloth that serves as the
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2024-12-11 15:00:00

Bishops address US defence budget on abortion, Afghans and women being drafted
As Congress inches towards passing the annual defence bill, leaders of the US Bishops’ Conference are urging the Senate to remove a provision that would require women to add their names to the national registry if there is ever another military draft in the United States. The bishops also urged Congress to overturn a recent
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2024-12-11 14:30:00

Prosperity gospel pastor of once lauded ‘SPAC Nation’ ordered to leave UK
Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, the founder of the church group known as SPAC Nation, is to be deported to Nigeria after living in the UK illegally for almost 20 years. SPAC Nation, a South London-based evangelical Pentecostal Christian organisation, rose to prominence in 2017. Services were often held in high-end locations, such as the Grand Sapphire
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2024-12-11 13:00:00

Christians in Aleppo will be respected, Syria’s Islamist rebels tell religious leaders
While many Christians are fearful of the Islamist groups involved in the regime change in Syria, an Argentinian-born priest who lives in Aleppo remains cautiously hopeful following a meeting with the new rulers of the country. The sudden overthrow of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, after years of regime gains in successive Russian-backed military campaigns,
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2024-12-11 11:30:00

Mystery of Mary Magdalene’s whereabouts in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel resolved
An Italian art restorer is “firmly convinced” she has identified the famous female follower of Jesus in Michelangelo’s celebrated Sistine Chapel masterpiece and put an end to a mystery that has lasted centuries. There are 300 tangled figures depicted in Michelangelo’s sprawling rendition of The Last Judgment in the celebrated chapel, but until now the presence of
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2024-12-10 11:48:11

Christians banned from villages in Chhattisgarh, India as religious hostility increases in state
Christians in India have been banned from living in their villages unless they renounce their faith. According to local reports, eight village councils in the Sukma District of Chhattisgarh state have passed resolutions banning Christians from living in the villages, threatening to loot their properties if they do not comply. Approximately 100 Christians are believed to
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2024-12-10 11:13:47

Notre Dame chief architect reveals devotion to Our Lady who gave him strength to complete restoration
The chief architect of Notre Dame has revealed his devotion to Our Lady, saying that he believes she gave him the strength to complete the restoration of the French Cathedral after it was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 2019. Colm Flynn, the Vatican correspondent for EWTN News, asked architect Philippe Villeneuve in a
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