Archive for January 16, 2016

Children in Los Angeles wrote to Pope Francis seeking prayers for their deported parents. Courtesy of Victor Alemán/vida-nueva.com.?w=200&h=150

US bishops: Deporting children and families won't solve migration crisis

The recent deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants will not discourage immigrants who are fleeing their countries as a last... Read more

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Indiana bill seeks to clarify religious freedom protection

A proposed law in Indiana would replace the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act with language that its advocates say is... Read more

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Nebraska's bishops call for reversal of transgender policy for schools sports

Nebraska’s Catholic bishops have called for the reversal of a new school athletics participation policy that would recognize gender identity,... Read more

Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome, speaks at a conference at the Pontifical Lateran University, Jan. 14, 2016. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Religious differences are a 'seed of peace', Rome's chief rabbi says

Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome, said Pope Francis’ visit to Rome’s major synagogue this weekend is a... Read more

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Gia Chacón (right), founder of March for the Martyrs, said the plight of the tens of thousands of Christian Armenians pushed out of their homes in the disputed Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh region hash been "completely overlooked by the mainstream media.”

March for the Martyrs raises awareness of persecuted Armenian Christians and more

The members of the general board of directors of the Regnum Christi Federation, before its first general convention from April 29 to May 4, 2024, in Rome.

Regnum Christi: ‘It would have been easy to run and hide,’ but the Church is ‘purifiying’ us

Facade of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia.

Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church

A view of the modern area of the Catholic cemetery located on the southern hillside of Mount Zion in April 2024. In the background are the buildings of the Arabic neighborhood of Abu Tor.

Franciscans file petition to stop cable cars from passing over Holy Land Catholic cemetery

Every Tuesday evening at 10 p.m., between 800 and 900 students converge on the historic St. Joseph’s Chapel at Lille Catholic University for a candlelight Mass.

‘Little miracle of Lille’: How a candlelight Mass gathers hundreds of young people every week in France

Attendees lay flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to mark the 109th anniversary of World War I-era mass killings on April 24, 2024.

109 years after genocide, Armenia faces another existential threat

Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue.

Franciscan University rejects Biden administration’s transgender policies in Title IX

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U.S. birth and fertility rates drop to record lows, according to CDC report

There are now more than 100 priests in the four dioceses of Sierra Leone.

Most priests in Sierra Leone are sons of Muslims, bishop says

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

Four German bishops resist push to install permanent ‘Synodal Council’

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