Archive for April 6, 2004

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Vatican slams communist China for imprisoning bishop

Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Director of the Vatican Press Office, harshly criticized Communist China on Wednesday for the arrest and imprisonment of... Read more

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Pope calls Catholics to live intensively the Easter Triduum

During Wednesday’s general audience, Pope John Paul explained the importance of the Easter Triduum, which begins tomorrow on Holy Thursday,... Read more

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Low population means less vocations, warns Congregation for the Clergy

During the presentation of the Pope’s Holy Thursday Letter to Priests, Archbishop Csaba Ternyak, Secretary of the Congregation for the... Read more

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English Church backs abortion documentary

A controversial new documentary will be the first to break through one of Britain’s last television taboos and show footage... Read more

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Human rights group petitions for release of Hmong Christian prisoners in Vietnam

Freedom House has petitioned the Government of Vietnam for the immediate release of 10 Hmong Christians as well as other... Read more

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Senate postpones vote on hate propaganda bill, bishops fear bill could silence Church

A controversial bill, which Catholic bishops fear could be used to silence Church teaching, was not voted on by the... Read more

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Judge’s decision to allow homosexual couple to adopt rejected in Chile

The Church and several family groups are reacting against the decision of an Appeals court in Temuco, Chile, to grant... Read more